Cambridge

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Passing from the countryside to within the boun daries of the University itself, nothing, perhaps, will seem more remarkable to the curious observer than the absence of that hard-featured grandeur with which the architecture of the Middle Ages was so deeply impressed. Cambridge goes back eight cen tuties; but there remains little to remind us of those many vicissitudes of mediaeval life from which neither of the Universities emerged unscathed; for with the disappearance of Feudalism, the advent of the New Learning, and the breakdown of Monasticism, Cam bridge assumed a richer dress, and the fine apparel of those days becomes her still. From that string of T udor palaces whose broad lawns and well-nurtured gardens mark the lazy passage of the Cam, to those more distant Colleges of Jesus and Emmanuel, a grave tranquillity pervades the whole. This sense of peace and of contentment, so precious to the individual mind, seems largely due to that gracious domesticity which the Tudor architect so well knew how to im part even to the meanest of his college buildings. But to those later architects who practised here.

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