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The Cambridge Library Collection will bring back to life books of enduring scholarly value (including out-of-copyright works originally issued by other publishers) across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and in science and technology. Alma Mater Or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge Volume 2 John Martin Frederick Wright CAMBRiDge UniVeRSiTy PReSS Cambridge, new york, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paolo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, new york www.cambridge.org information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108014366 © in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2010 This edition first published 1827 This digitally printed version 2010 iSBn 978-1-108-01436-6 Paperback This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated. Cambridge University Press wishes to make clear that the book, unless originally published by Cambridge, is not being republished by, in association or collaboration with, or with the endorsement or approval of, the original publisher or its successors in title. ALMA MATER. VOL. II. ALMA MATER; OR, SEVEN YEARS UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. BY A TRINITY-MAN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. Eotrtron: BLACK, YOUNG, AND YOUNG, TAVISTOCK-STREKT. 1827. ALMA MATER; OR, SEVEN YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. JC OR the first time since I first entered college did I now visit my relations; so eagerly and assiduously had I been prosecuting my studies in the Univer- sity. Without entering into the particulars of this visit, which would prove interesting to none but my particular friends, I shall merely state, that after a short sojourn amongst them, of much less duration than the long vacation, finding myself in a country village 130 miles from London and not much less from Cambridge, decidedly out of my element, I was all impatient once more to resume my proper station within the sacred walls of Trinity. Taking a circuit, therefore, of a few hundred miles, just to receive the gratulations of a few well-wishers scattered abroad on one side or the other of the road to London, I passed through that emporium of the world, on my route to Oxford, VOL. II. B