180 Advantages of Cavendish College, Cambridge, 8fc. 
kinds. The College staff will be sufficiently large to supply almost all the 
instruction needed, and in cases where it is necessary to send the students 
outside for tuition, the expense will be borne by the College and not charged 
to the parents. The number of Tutors will of course be increased as the 
students increase in number. The usual age for admission into the College 
will probably be about sixteen or seventeen ; but no maximum or minimum 
limit has been fixed. It seems likely that a considerable number of students 
will enter at the ordinary age, and several between fifteen and sixteen. It is 
expected that a great majority of the students will become members of the 
University. Since the College has no Charter of Incorporation, in order to do 
so they must matriculate formally as Non-Collegiate Students, though practi- 
cally they will be members of a fully organized College. Students who do 
not intend to join the University will be freely admitted, and will, within the 
College, be in all respects on the same footing as the others. It will be 
assumed that every student who is a member of the University will leave the 
College as soon as he has taken his degree ; but permission to remain longer 
will be given under certain circumstances. If such permission is desired, it 
should be applied for as long as possible beforehand. A term's notice or a 
term's payment will be required whenever a non-University student wishes 
to leave the College ; and the same rule will be enforced in the case of 
University students who leave before they take their degrees. Applications 
for admission into the College should be made to the Warden. All candidates 
accepted by him are required — 1. To produce a certificate of good character 
signed by some person of position, if possible a graduate of Oxford or Cam- 
bridge. 2. To pass an easy entrance examination. The examinations are 
held a day or two before the commencement of each term. Two papers are 
set — one in elementary Classics, consisting chiefly of questions in Latin and 
Greek Grammar, and the other in rudiments of Arithmetic, Euclid, and 
Algebra. Those who have recently passed the Local Examinations of either 
Oxford or Cambridge are excused the College entrance examination. For 
those students who wish to obtain a degree the best time to enter is at the 
beginning of October, or the beginning of January, the former being slightly 
the more convenient. Those who wish to be members of the College without 
being members of the University can be received at the beginning of any of 
the College terms ; and it will sometimes be advisable for a student to enter 
thus a term or two, or even a longer period, before he desires to join the 
University. A registration fee of 11. will charged in cases where it is required 
that the name of a candidate for admission into the College should be placed 
upon the College books before the term immediately preceding that in which 
he wishes to enter. Every morning and evening the students are assembled 
in one of the rooms of the College to join in a short form of prayer. The 
regular religious services are those of the Church of England, but the fullest 
liberty of conscience is freely given to Nonconformists. 
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The Promoters of the College are endeavouring to extend by means of a 
double economy — of time and of money — the benefits of University education 
to many who have hitherto been deprived of them : but they do not desire 
their College to be a class institution, or a place where mere boys can obtain 
degrees. It cannot be supposed that out of all who desire a University educa- 
tion but one class finds it necessary to begin the active work of life at twenty 
years of age, and that this is the only class to which economy is an object : 
nor can an attempt to build and organize a College specially adapted for 
students who wish to enter the University at sixteen or seventeen, and get a 
degree at nineteen or twenty, be fairly described as a design for lowering the 
value of a Cambridge degree by conferring it indiscriminately on a mob of 
raw boys. No one will be admitted to the College whose attainments are not 
