Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . be invested with the garb of office, or be solemnlyinducted into the seats of their seniors. Snatched from their cradleand hastily weaned, they get a smattering of the rules of Priscianand Donatus; in their teens and beardless they chatter childishlyconcerning the Categories and the Perihermenias in the compositionof which Aristotle spent his whole soul.* It is to be feared that the dechne of learning, which atthis period was characteristic, as we thus see, of Oxford,was
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Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . be invested with the garb of office, or be solemnlyinducted into the seats of their seniors. Snatched from their cradleand hastily weaned, they get a smattering of the rules of Priscianand Donatus; in their teens and beardless they chatter childishlyconcerning the Categories and the Perihermenias in the compositionof which Aristotle spent his whole soul.* It is to be feared that the dechne of learning, which atthis period was characteristic, as we thus see, of Oxford, was equally characteristic of Cambridge. Certainly there wasno scholar there of the calibre of William of Ockham, oreven of Richard of Bury, or of the Merton Realist, Brad-wardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. It is notindeed until more than a century later, when we havereached the age of Wycliffe, the first of the reformers andthe last of the schoolmen, that the name of any Cambridgescholar emerges upon the page of history. But meanwhile the collegiate system of the University 1 Phllohihlon, C. 9.98 lis ^ i. #^x-. WW^-W^-^-W^Mm %.?> COLLEGES OF FOURTEENTH CENTURY was slowly being developed. Some forty years after thefoundation of Peterhouse, in the year 1324, Hervey deStanton, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Canon of Bathand Wells, obtained from Edward II. permission to foundat Cambridge the College of the Scholars of St. Michael.The college itself, Michaelhouse, has long been merged inthe great foundation of Trinity, but its original statutesstill exist and show that they were conceived in a some-what less liberal spirit than that of the code of Hugh deBalsham. The monk and the friar are excluded from thesociety, but the Rule of Merton is not mentioned. Twoyears afterwards, in 1326, we find thirty-two scholars knownas the Kings Scholars maintained at the University byEdward II. It seems probable that it had been the in-tention of the King in this way to encourage the