The great prizes at the university are the fellowships, of which there are about 300, some open to all candidates without restriction, but conditions of tenure as to marriage and holy orders vary at different colleges. Their value varies from £100 to £3J0 per annum, and the senior fellowships are often £500 or more. There are also stipends attached to all the college offices—e.g., those of dean, bursar, steward, etc. The office of tutor is one of great honor and emolument. The chancellor gives annually two gold medals, open to the competition of all students qualified to be candidates for the classi cal tripos of the year. The members of parliament for the university give annually four prizes for the best dissertations in Latin prose. There are numerous other university distinctions, both scholarships and of other kinds, for an accurate account of which the Cambridge Calendar should be consulted.
The following is a list of the colleges in the order of their antiquity. A particular notice of each college (except Cavendish) will be found in its alphabetical place: Students whose names are not on the boards of any college, and are allowed to pursue their studies and proceed to degrees, were 82 in number at the above date.
Few of the colleges present an imposing facade to the streets—King's is, perhaps, the only one of which this may be said—but the quiet and picturesque beauty of the courts in the interiors is very pleasing. Dr, Whewell, the late master of Trinity college, built a new hostel in connection with Trinity, which is considered to be in very good taste. Amongst the other public buildings of Cambridge are to be mentioned the senate-house, where university examinations are held. degrees conferred, and all public. business of the university conducted. The Fitzwilliam museum is the finest of the modern addi
tions to the university. Viscount Fitzwilliam bequeathed, in 1816, £100,000 South-sea annuities, the interest of which was to build and support a museum. He left also a very valuable collection of books, paintings, etc., as a nucleus for future contributions. G. Basevi was the architect. The university library is a fine mass of buildings of differ ent periods, and contains at present more than 170,000 volumes. The geological museum. contains the original collection of Dr. Woodward, which, out of respect to the founder, has been kept in its original state, unmixed with more recent and vastly more numerous and interesting acquisitions. The university is indebted for many of these geological treasures to the late prof. Scdgwick. The mineralogical room contains the valuable collections of the late sir A. Hume, Charles Brooke, and Henry Warburton. The Pitt press is a Gothic structure built in honor of Mr. Pitt, who was educated at Cambridge. It contains the university printing-offices, which are very extensive. There is also a good anatomical museum.
There is a very good hospital, founded under the will of Dr. Addenbrooke in 1753. The observatory contains some very fine instruments, amongst which is a large equato rial telescope, presented by the duke of Northumberland in 1835. The income of the university is about 1:2000. and the aggregate income of the colleges about £200,000 per annum.
For the most recent information Omni the university studies, etc., the Cambridge Calendar for the current year should be consulted; for the history, biography, and antiquity, see Fuller's History of Cambridge; Dyer; Caius; Le Keux Memorials; Coop er's Annals; Cooper's At&oue Cantabrigknses; &raduati Cantabrigienses.