A note couched in precise terms, containing special interrogatories, was then drawn up and addressed to the Observatory of Cambridge in Massachusetts.
The Director of the Cambridge Observatory to the President of the Gun Club at Baltimore.
On the 3d of July, 1775, he arrived at
Cambridge, and took command of the troops which were besieging General Gage.
Their president, Barbicane, the promoter of the enterprise, having consulted the astronomers of the
Cambridge Observatory upon the subject, took all necessary means to ensure the success of this extraordinary enterprise, which had been declared practicable by the majority of competent judges.
Cyril Overton, Trinity College,
Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.
And if Angel were not going to enter the Church, what was the use of sending him to
Cambridge? The University as a step to anything but ordination seemed, to this man of fixed ideas, a preface without a volume.
'The
Cambridge History of English Literature,' now nearing completion in fourteen volumes (G.
But now the two great universities of Oxford and
Cambridge were taking their place.
"At
Cambridge there are people to talk to," Helen echoed him, rhythmically and absent-mindedly.
She was pleased to be able to tell you that her son was at
Cambridge, and it was with a little laugh that she spoke of the rush of dances to which her daughter, just out, was invited.
I shall have the pleasure of acknowledging the great assistance which I have received from several other naturalists, in the course of this and my other works; but I must be here allowed to return my most sincere thanks to the Reverend Professor Henslow, who, when I was an undergraduate at
Cambridge, was one chief means of giving me a taste for Natural History, -- who, during my absence, took charge of the collections I sent home, and by his correspondence directed my endeavours, -- and who, since my return, has constantly rendered me every assistance which the kindest friend could offer.
His record at Charterhouse was so brilliant that when he went to
Cambridge the Master of Trinity Hall went out of his way to express his satisfaction that he was going to that college.