94 DR. SHIPLEY'S REMINISCENCES 



seems now to know why one of these was done away 

 with, and the platform so elongated that passengers 

 perform a perceptible part of their journey on foot. 



Still in those days people were easily pleased, and the 

 author of the " Pictorial Guide to Cambridge " (1867), 

 after referring to coaching as a still extant but semi- 

 barbarous mode of transit, breaks into the following 

 rhapsody over our Railway Station : 



The progress of the train has ceased, the re- 

 bounding of the carriages coming to a state of rest 

 is over, the voices of porters and the opening of 

 doors has commenced, and here we are standing on 

 the pavement of the Cambridge station. What a 

 surprise ! I had no idea of such a length of building, 

 all covered over, and comfortable ; it cannot be 

 much less than four hundred feet. This is really 

 one of the best stations I have seen for many a day. 

 But how is it the stream of passengers is dividing ? 

 Oh, I see, one half are taking themselves off to that 

 handsome refreshment room, and the other half are 

 passing through the building to trudge on foot into 

 the town, or to indulge themselves with a cheap ride 

 to the same place. 



When Newton came into residence the Master of 

 Magdalene was the Hon. and Very Reverend George 

 Neville Grenville, Dean of Windsor, who had been 

 appointed in 1813. He and his successor, the Hon. 

 and Rev. Latimer Neville, later Lord Braybrooke, 

 presided over the College for ninety-one years. The 

 Tutors were E. Warter and V. Raven, and Mynors 

 Bright, a well-known authority on "Pepys' Diary " was 

 Lecturer in Classics, Dean and Praelector. At that time 

 there were but four Foundation Fellows in the College, 

 but there were no less than thirteen " by " Fellowships, 

 though three of these were vacant in 1849. The by- 



