Downing College (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Downing CollegeDowning, the youngest of the Cambridge Colleges, is not yet a century old. The very brevity of its historian's task constitutes his difficulty. Unlike his collaborators in the present series, he has at his disposal no mass of material from Whose abundance it is easy to furnish his readers With a mingled feast of solid antiquarianism and quaint gossip. And yet the story Which he has to tell is fraught With more associations of general and even national interest than might have been expected from so short a period as a single century. Through the foresight of the younger Pitt, Who inspired the Charter, Downing College led the way, in Oxford and Cambridge, both by releasing the great mass of the fellowships from all restrictions that.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.