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  Trinity College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trinity College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
Trinity is the largest of all the colleges in Cambridge (and indeed Oxbridge), with around 660 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows.
The college was founded by Henry VIII in 1546, from the merger of two existing colleges: Michaelhouse (founded by Hervey de Stanton in 1324), and King's Hall (established by Edward II in 1317 and refounded by Edward III in 1337).
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 Trinity College, Cambridge - Wikipedia
Trinity are o puternică tradiţie academică, având printre absolvenţii săi 31 de deţinători ai Premiului Nobel, cinci deţinători ai distincţiei Fields Medal şi unul al premiului Abel (ambele în matematică).
Trinity College and King's College were for decades the main recruiting grounds for the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society that once boasted members of real distinction but which is now considered to likely no longer exist.
Trinity is sometimes suggested to be the second or third largest landowner in the UK (or in England) - after the Crown Estate and the Church of England.
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 John Montagu, 1655?-1728
Entered Cambridge, 1672; made master of Sherburn Hospital by his relative Bishop Crewe, 1683; made Doctor by Royal mandate, 1686; made master of Trinity College, Cambridge, directly by the Crown, 1683; Vice-chancellor, 1687; resigned mastership of Trinity and became Dean of Durham, either in 1699 or 1700; remained Dean of Durham until 1728.
Trinity, as a royal foundation, was a particularly vulnerable target for...
Part of the reason for the decline of Trinity after Barrow's death was that his successors, John North (1677-83) and John Montagu (1683-1699), were more inclined to buckle under such royal pressure so that royal favor rather than academic merit became the path to advancement within the college.
www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1728_john.htm   (715 words)

  
 Janus: Archive of Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546.
Aspects of the original constitution of Trinity are drafted in the foundation charter, but it was not until the reign of Edward VI that the College received its first statutes.
Although gradual adjustments in the College constitution mirrored changes in academic life, it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that wholesale changes were made in the way that the College was governed.
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0016/TCA   (521 words)

  
 Reporter Special 9/11/00: Trinity College
The College offers up to two research bursaries from October 2001 to students from Eastern Europe who are currently studying for (or have already obtained) the M.Phil.
Tenure is conditional upon the elected Student being accepted by the Board of Graduate Studies to read for a Cambridge postgraduate degree or diploma or to undertake an approved course of research (which may be aiming for a qualification at an institution in France).
Trinity College offers each year up to two Studentships of value £6,504 (in 2000-01) together with fees and certain allowances, to enable the holder of an AHRB Studentship or similar award to undertake linguistic study, for one year, in preparation for subsequent research.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/2000-01/special/06/72.html   (1227 words)

  
 Trinity College, Cambridge
Of the two, Michaelhouse was the older college, established in 1324 by Hervey de Stanton, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Edward II.
Trinity became one of the richest and most prestigious of Cambridge colleges, drawing to it the sons of many leading families.
Rumour has it that the apple tree outside the college gate is a direct descendant of the tree which dropped an apple on Isaac Newton's head, prompting him to evolve his theory of gravity.
www.britainexpress.com /counties/cambridgeshire/az/cambridge/trinity-college.htm   (555 words)

  
 Trinity College Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The form of words used in Trinity's Statute was subsequently adopted by most of the other Melbourne Colleges in the drafting of their Statutes of Affiliation.
Perry was the principal founder of the College.
A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he suggested that the new Melbourne College be named after his alma mater.
www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au /library/archive/affil125.shtml   (582 words)

  
 Architectural Review, The: Cambridge composure - student housing project for Trinity College, Cambridge
This student housing for Trinity College in Cambridge explores geometry and contrast to create a richly complex, yet humanly responsive setting for study.
Burrell's Field is the second student housing complex built for Trinity College, Cambridge, by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, and the latest in their series of Oxbridge collegiate buildings.
Although the architectural vocabulary, like its inspiration, is foreign to Cambridge, the ensemble already seems so at home that it might always have been there - not least because new and existing elements are interlinked into such a coherent and richly articulated unity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1204_v201/ai_19736973   (1117 words)

  
 Trinity College
He or she is responsible for superintending the running of the College, and chairs the meetings of the College Council and Governing Body.
The Master of Trinty College is Professor Sir Martin Rees, F.R.S. Sir Martin is currently Astronomer Royal and a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.
Trinity College is governed by the Master and somewhat over 160 Fellows, who are responsible for maintaining it as a place of education, learning and research, and for promoting its welfare more generally.
www.savetrimley.co.uk /page7.html   (413 words)

  
 The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry; The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures ...
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry; The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the J:T. Eliot; Ronald Schuchard:0151000964:eCampus.com
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933
For the first time ever, the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1933, are now being published in an annotated edition.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0151000964   (261 words)

  
 Reporter Special 2/11/98: Trinity College
The College offers up to two Research Bursaries from October 1999 to students from Eastern Europe who are currently studying for (or have already obtained) the M.Phil.
Trinity College offers each year up to two Studentships of value £6,455 (in 1998-99) together with fees and certain allowances, equivalent to a British Academy postgraduate award for one year, to enable the holder of a Humanities Research Board studentship or similar award to undertake linguistic study in preparation for subsequent research.
A Research Studentship in Theology is offered from October 1999, tenable at Trinity College for up to three years subject to satisfactory progress, value normally as for a Pre-Research Studentship for Linguistic Study.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1998-9/special/05/69.html   (1156 words)

  
 Preface
This is the second volume in The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, a collaborative project devoted to publishing in electronic form documentary and colour facsimile texts of all the relevant medieval and renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman.
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 is one of the earliest and one of the most handsome of the manuscripts of the B-Version of Piers Plowman, and it provided the text for the first edition of the B-Version since Robert Crowley's of 1550.
We thank the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, who gave us access to the manuscript and permission to make digital images of the entire manuscript when that was quite a new and even daring thing to do.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /seenet/piers/mac/backups/preface.html   (1747 words)

  
 Trinity College, Cambridge: catalogue of medieval manuscripts
The manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College are kept in three locked classes, designated respectively as B, R, and O. Class B is situated near the southern end of the Library, on the east side; class R is directly opposite to it; and class O is on the east side, near the north end.
Roger Gale, born in 1672, became Scholar of Trinity in 1693 and Fellow in 1697, graduating as B.A. in 1694 and M.A. in 1698.
I desire therefore your acceptance of them for the use of the College, and that they may be reposited all together in one of the Classes of your Library, and that you will be pleased to give such orders for their safety as you may judge necessary and convenient.
www-lib.trin.cam.ac.uk /~jon/James/Jamespref.html   (4617 words)

  
 CAMBRIDGE CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, biography, discography
A considerable proportion of the pensioners and scholars the 'King's Childer' admitted to The King's Hall from the date of its foundation until the end of Henry V's reign were ex-choristers.
Trinity's mixed choir, comprising up to thirty choral scholars (who study a wide range of academic subjects) was formed by the present Organist and Director of Music, Richard Marlow, in 1982, a few years after the admission of women undergraduates to the College.
In addition to giving regular concerts in London and Cambridge, the Choir sings recitals and services during some summer vacations in various parish churches mostly in the north of England of which the College is patron.
www.goldbergweb.com /en/interpreters/orchestras/9577.php   (624 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 16 June 2005
Trinity College intends to elect up to two Senior Research Fellows, in the Arts or Humanities, with effect from 1 October 2006 (or an agreed later date).
The college regards a Senior Research Fellowship as being of academic standing comparable to that of a distinguished research professorship at a major university, and applicants are expected to have a correspondingly distinguished record of achievement in research.
Applicants should ask not more than three referees to write direct to the Master, Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ, marking the envelope 'Senior Research Fellowship', and ensuring that the references reach the college by the same date (17 October 2005).
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/160605/appts/entry_18.htm   (198 words)

  
 Artist Page - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
'The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity' was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII.
Trinity's choral associations reach back to this early fourteenth-century period.
In addition to giving regular concerts in London and Cambridge, the Choir sings recitals and services during some summer vacations in various parish churches ­ mostly in the north of England ­ of which the College is patron.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /artist_page.asp?name=trinitychoir   (638 words)

  
 Weinstein Elected Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge
Professor Weinstein is a nationally recognized expert in Constitutional law and a frequent writer and lecturer on the subject of free speech.
Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546 as part of the University of Cambridge.
Trinity is home to 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and more than 160 Fellows.
www.law.asu.edu /?id=9269   (174 words)

  
 The Thresher Online: SRC student to attend Cambridge (February 28, 1997)
Although it is not unusual for students to go abroad, it is unusual for them to do so their senior year.
The Broad scholarship, awarded every other year, sends a Rice student to Trinity College at Cambridge University in England to study for one year.
"Trinity is the alma mater of Isaac Newton, another great physics student," Patricia Martin, director of international education, said.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/84/970228/News/Story09.html   (417 words)

  
 Trinity College Table Football Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are 4 Trinity teams this year (A, B, C, and TGM).
The Trinity College Table Football Club (TCTFC) is a college society that was formed in Michaelmas 2001.
It has a constitution, a committee, a budget, and all the other stuff needed to actually be an official society.
www.srcf.ucam.org /tctfc   (595 words)

  
 Trinity College Finances   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although not directly related to Trinity College, one outspoken professor at Cambridge University is Highly critical of its finances.
Gillian Evans asserts that the underlying problem shadowing Cambridge is that “we have run into enormous debt,” as a result of a decade of misguided administration and neglected fund management.
It is impossible to speak to Evans and not draw the conclusion that this is a woman whose engagement with the issues facing this university is genuinely principled, and it is also impossible to ignore her deeply-
www.savetrimley.co.uk /page9a.html   (1029 words)

  
 Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Sir Martin Rees Kt FRS be appointed to the Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge in succession to Professor Amartya Sen FBA PhD MA, who retires in January 2004.
Professor Sir Martin Rees (aged 61) is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University and has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1973.
Sir Martin is a Trinity graduate, and holds an honorary Fellowship at Trinity.
www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page4410.asp   (238 words)

  
 Trinity College (Cambridge), Cambridge University, Trinity Street, Cambridge (UK), CB2 1TQ, England Famous Location - ...
King Henry VIII founded the College in 1546 as one of the very last acts of his life.
He formed Trinity through the amalgamation of two existing colleges - King's Hall (not to be confused with King's College) and Michaelhouse.
Trinity was, from the first, a very much richer society than King’s Hall and Michaelhouse put together.
www.famouslocations.com /locations/trinitycollegecambridgecambridgeuniversity.php   (429 words)

  
 Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and lived there from 1661 till 1696, during which time he produced the bulk of his work in mathematics; in 1696 he was appointed to a valuable Government office, and moved to London, where he resided till his death.
On account of the plague the College was sent down during parts of the year 1665 and 1666, and for several months at this time Newton lived at home.
On his return to Cambridge in 1667 Newton was elected to a fellowship at his college, and permanently took up his residence there.
www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html   (8709 words)

  
 Property Management Software - News about Trinity College Cambridge - Grosvenor Systems
Trinity College, part of the University of Cambridge organisation, has selected Propman to manage its diverse property portfolio.
An important element of Trinity's portfolio consists of the world famous Cambridge Science Park that is owned and operated by Trinity College.
Building on its own land during the 1970s Trinity College Cambridge constructed the Science Park in order to forge closer links with new high-tech industries.
www.grosvenorsystems.co.uk /default.aspx?ToDo=NewsTC   (134 words)

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