UNIVERSITY. 
the University chest, siuns from govern- 
ment, or from estates appropriated for that 
purpose : the whole income of the Univer- 
sity being about eleven thousatid pounds per 
annum, including fees for degrees, profits 
of the printing office, &c. Of this sum eight 
tlmiisand pounds is expended annually to 
officers, professors in the library and schools, 
the press, in taxes, and charitable dona- 
tions, the whole under the management of 
the vice-chancellor for the tiine being, 
whose accounts are audited by three per- 
sons appointed yearly by the senate. 
nie Book of Statutes was printed in the 
year t785, copies of which are possessed by 
the vice- chancellor and the proctors, and 
one is deposited in the public and in the 
libraries of each college ; it consists of the 
ancient statutes, those of Henry VIII. Ed- 
ward VI. and those of the first and twelfth 
years of the reign of Queen Elizabetli ; 
“ Literas Regias ad Academiam datae ; In- 
terpretationes Statutorum; Senafus con- 
sulta sive gratiae decreta praefectornm ; Ju- 
ramenta et Formulae.” Mr. Raworth says, 
“ the statutes of the twelfth of Elizabeth, 
and the Senatiis Consiilta, are those which 
are chiefly respected at this time. Many 
of the old statutes, decrees, interpretations, 
&c. are looked upon as obsolete, some as 
ridiculous, and others nijnecessary in the 
present establishment ; yet what Dr. Bent- 
ley observed of Trinity College statutes, 
during his disagreement with the fellows of 
that society, might .be urged concerning 
these : “ Some are my club, and others my 
rusty sword, which I can draw upon occa- 
sion.” 
The terms are three in number, Michael- 
mas term commences on the tenth of Oc- 
tober, and terminates the sixteenth day of 
December; Lent term begins January thir- 
teen, and is concluded on the Friday imme- 
diately preceding Palm Sunday ; Midsum- 
mer term begins one week after Easter 
day, and ends on the Friday following com- 
mencement day, which is invariably the 
first Tuesday in July. Upon the decease 
of a member of the Senate during the 
term, and within the University, appli- 
cation is made to the vice-chancellor, and 
the bell of the University is tolled for one 
hour, term instantly commences for three 
days, and for that period lectures and dispu- 
tations cease. 
Most of the statutes made for the govern- 
ment of the sixteen different colleges dic- 
tate that the members or fellows of them 
gliall be exclusively Englishmen, and some 
even prescribe that they must be natives of 
particular counties and districts ; hence an 
invidiou-s distinction is created between the 
residents of the northern and southern parts 
of this Island, whicli though united for a 
long time past in political matters, are 
most completely separated in the parsnit of 
knowledge, and it is too much to be feared 
that tins circumstance is the real cause of 
the affected contempt of the degrees and 
academic honours granted by seminaries of 
learning in Scotland and Ireland. It is sin- 
gular that the individuals who founded the 
colleges at Cambridge and Oxford should 
have concurred in this narrow and illiberal 
conduct almost universally, as they each 
had a strong sense of religion, which how- 
ever does not appear to have taught them 
the best principle of it, brotherly love. As 
a tew ot the colleges admit of general com- 
petition for fellowships, and the members of 
the two Universities seem sensible of the 
injustice and impolicy of such distinctions 
we may venture to hope some method will’ 
be devised ere long to obviate or remove 
them. The following regulation applies to 
all the colleges at Cambridge. “ Whoso- 
ever hath one English parent, although he 
be born in another country, shall be esteem- 
ed as if born in that county to which his 
English parent belonged. But if both pa- 
rents are English, he shall be reckoned of 
that comity to which his father belonged.’’ 
The colleges are thus constituted: The 
head, by which odd term the master is de- 
signated, who is generally a doctor of divi- 
nity ; but Cains college may be governed 
by a doctor of physic, and Trinity must 
have a doctor of laws; the principal of 
King’s IS styled provost, and of Queen’s 
president. The fellows are generally ba- 
chelors of divinity, , bachelors or masters of 
arts, and others are bachelors and doctors 
of law and physic, particularly at the two 
colleges of Trinity-hall and Cains. There is 
a distinction between the fellows, who are 
divided into classes, called regular and bye; 
the latter are considered as merely hono- 
rary, never succeeding to college prefer- 
ment, nor having any concern whatever in 
the affairs of it, but are allowed an inconsi- 
derable sum annually by their respective 
colleges, which act as trustees for them 
they are denominated Perse Wortley, York- 
shire, Coventry, Platt, Dixie; and ’Tiver- 
ton, Clergymen who are termed conduits 
are employed in the several institutions 
a.s chaplains, and perform some of the dg- 
ties belonging to that office. 
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