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CHAPTER IV. 



CAMBRIDGE LIFE. 



[MY father's Cambridge life comprises the time between the 

 Lent Term, 1828, when he came up as a Freshman, and the 

 end of the May Term, 1831, when he took his degree and left 

 the University. 



It appears from the College books, that my father " admissus 

 est pensionarius minor sub Magistro Shaw" on Oct. 15, 1827. 

 He did not come into residence till the Lent Term, 1828, so 

 that, although he passed his examination in due season, he 

 was unable to take his degree at the usual time, the beginning 

 of the Lent Term, 1831. In such a case a man usually 

 took his degree before Ash- Wednesday, when he was called 

 " Baccalaureus ad Diem Cinerum," and ranked with the B.A.'s 

 of the year. My father's name, however, occurs in the list of 

 Bachelors " ad Baptistam," or those admitted between Ash- 

 Wednesday and St. John Baptist's Day (June 24th) ; * he 

 therefore took rank among the Bachelors of 1832. 



He " kept " for a term or two in lodgings, over Bacon the 

 tobacconist's ; not, however, over the shop in the Market Place, 

 now so well known to Cambridge men, but in Sidney Street. 

 For the rest of his time he had pleasant rooms on the south 

 side of the first court of Christ's.! 



What determined the choice of this college for his brother 



* " On Tuesday last Charles Dar- floor, on the west side of the middle 



win, of Christ's College, was admit- staircase. A medallion (given by 



ted B.A." Cambridge Chronicle, my brother) has recently been let 



Friday, April 29, 1831. into the wall of the sitting-room. 



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