Summary
This book does not seek to compete with the many topographical guide-books to Cambridge which are already available; still less does it emulate the encyclopaedic quality of The Student's Handbook.
It attempts rather to give a simple account of how the University of Cambridge has come, in the course of seven centuries, to be what it is to-day; to present a picture, in outline, of the working of the present academic system, from the points of view both of the don and of the undergraduate; and to show, in particular, the close interdependence of university and college both in teaching and in administration.
I am indebted for valuable help and criticism to Mr Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, to Mr E. Harrison, Registrary of the University, and to Mr D. A. Winstanley, Fellow of Trinity College.
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- Introduction to CambridgeA Brief Guide to the University from Within, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1934