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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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,some fellow-commoners, who kept on Grays staircase,raised a cry of Fire, late one night, outside the poetsroom, having previously placed a tub of water underhis window, and that he hastily descended by theladder into the tub. Something of the kind probablydid happen, though Mr. Gosses version is in somerespects clearly inaccurate.^ Anyhow, we may believethat Gray keenly felt the indignity, and he justifiablyresented the disregard of the incident by the Master,who called it a boyish frolic He transferred him-self to Pembroke, where, as he tells Wharton, he was 1 Mr. Gosse makes the poet hook his rope to the bar : butthere are several bars, and they are not adapted to the purpose ;moreover, they are outside the window, not inside, as Grays letterswould make us suppose that they should be. )\Ir. Gosse has takenhis tale from a silly book, published, many years after the supposedincident, by a Scotchman who knew nothing of Cambridge, anddid not pretend that his story was more than a jest.
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THE TIMES OF GRAY 263 civilly received, and extremely well lodged, and asquiet as in the Grande Chartreuse. In the quiet of Pembroke, Gray lived out his daysuntil the end in 1770. In the old home of Spenserand Andrewes poetry and learning were still honoured.The chambers allotted to him were in the interior court,on the first floor of Sir Robert Hitchams picturesquebuilding, erected in 1659, and adjoined the dais endof the hall. They were afterwards occupied by WilliamPitt. Southwards the poets rooms overlooked whatwas then the fellows garden and the garden of thelodge. The latter is said to have been very beautifulin Grays time. It contained a sheet of water, whereonthe eccentric Master of that time, Roger Long, used todivert himself on a water-velocipede, to the amusementof Gray and the undergraduates. The same highand mighty Prince Roger, surnamed the Long, Lord ofthe Great Zodiack, the Glass Uranium, and the Chariotthat goes without Horses, also erected, on the side ofthe court op

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