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Title: Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940
Subjects: University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England History
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: OISE - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the windows themselvesvery large and high. He has been greatly reproachedfor this building, since he endeavoured arbitrarily andwithout consent of the fellows to eject a fellow, whoas doctor of laws occupied the rooms of a doctor ofmedicine. Many controversial pamphlets have ap-peared on the subject, filled with personalities, whichdo no honour to the otherwise famous and very learnedDr. Bentley, but rather serve to degrade him and toscandalise many honest folk. And so indeed I heardmany complain of his extreme arrogance, though hetries to be very polite to strangers, and, for an English-man, speaks good and tolerably intelligible Latin. Heis a man somewhat more than forty years old, rathertall and spare and red in the face. Bentley talkedbig of his own forthcoming edition of Horace, scorningall other editions. He spoke strongly of the Gallicimpudence of Le Clerc, the Swiss-Dutch scholar whohad ventured to assail his notes on the TusculanDisputations— a versatile but shallow man, as
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v^. THK INIVF.RSITY I.IKKARV AM KIN(.S TOI I K<.K ( HAFf L NEWTON AND BENTLEY 235 Professor Jebb characterised him, who had touchedthe surface of philosophy and was ambitious of figuringon the surface of classical literature. Magdalene was the next college visited. It isdescribed as a very old and mean building : thelibrary, which stands at the top under the roof, is alsovery small, and may consist of perhaps 600 volumes.All the books, with hardly one exception, are entirelyovergrown with mould. Next day Uffenbachs first visit was to the Universityschools and library. The latter is in two mean roomsof moderate size, one of them half empty. Theprinted books were ill arranged and in utter confusion.The librarian, as usual, was absent, but Uffenbach wasfortunate enough to find Mr. Baker, librarian of SaintJohns, a friendly and learned man, by whose help hesaw several things : for otherwise the maid, who hadopened the door, and was with us, would have beenable to show us but little. He

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