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1. www.thecrimson.com › article › 2023/10/3‘Hidden History of Cambridge & Harvard’ Review: A Deep-Dive ...

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   Oct 3, 2023 · Since its 1630 founding to the intricate details of the city today, Jane Merrill’s most recent publication leaves no stone unturned when chronicling Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harvard...

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3. www.cam.ac.uk › a-global-university › north-americaNorth America - University of Cambridge

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   Cambridge is the UK’s leading university for graduate studies in American History, and there are many longstanding exchange programmes between Cambridge Colleges and leading American universities, with scholarships available for students travelling in both directions.

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   Home to the location where George Washington took command of the troops and to America's oldest Ivy League university, Cambridge is a city that feels like a town. Hasty Pudding meetings were...

5. www.varsity.co.uk › features › 27180When was Cambridge University really founded? Some say over ...

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   Feb 27, 2024 · A historian writing in 1804 remarks that while the “supporters of its antiquity have affirmed that it was founded by Cantaber,” it “appears the honor of founding the University is due to Sigebert, King of the East-Angles, 630 years after Christ.”

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6. www.britannica.com › topic › University-of-CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge | History, Notable Alumni, & Facts ...

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   Oct 24, 2024 · The start of the university is generally taken as 1209, when scholars from Oxford migrated to Cambridge to escape Oxford’s riots of “town and gown” (townspeople versus scholars). To avert possible hostilities between students and townspeople, only scholars under the supervision of a master were allowed to remain in Cambridge by order of Henry III.

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7. www.cam.ac.uk › about-the-university › historyHistory - University of Cambridge

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   Many of the University's customs and unusual terminology can be traced to roots in the early years of the University's long history, and this section of our website looks to the past to find the origins of much that is distinctive in the University of today.

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   What is the University of Cambridge known for?

   • University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, England. The colleges and collegiate institutions of the university are: Many of the college buildings are rich in history and tradition. King’s College Chapel, begun in 1446, is one of Britain’s most magnificent buildings.

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   Who founded the University of Cambridge?

   • The University of Cambridge's first college, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.

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   What is Cambridge in America?

   • Cambridge in America helps the University and Colleges keep in touch with over 20,000 Cambridge alumni in the USA. Also, there is an active network of alumni associations in Canada and Mexico with over 4,000 and 400 Cambridge Alumni, respectively. Cambridge University Press & Assessment opened an independent sales office in New York in 1949.

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   When did Cambridge become a university?

   • Over the next three centuries another 15 colleges were founded, and in 1318 Cambridge received formal recognition as a studium generale (a medieval school for advanced study) from Pope John XXII. Henry VIII Henry VIII, detail of a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1538; in the collection of the duke of Rutland.

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   Was Cambridge involved in enslavement?

   • In 2022, peer-reviewed research commissioned by the university found that Cambridge had been involved in enslavement in several ways, including benefiting financially from the institution of slavery and educating the sons of enslavers. The research also acknowledged the university’s subsequent contribution to the abolition of slavery.

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   Why did Henry III allow students to stay in Cambridge?

   • To avert possible hostilities between students and townspeople, only scholars under the supervision of a master were allowed to remain in Cambridge by order of Henry III. It was partly to provide an orderly place of residence that (in emulation of Oxford) the first college, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, bishop of Ely.

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › University_of_CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge - Wikipedia

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   The 31 colleges of the present-day University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the university; no college within the University of Cambridge is as old as the university itself. The colleges within the university were initially endowed fellowships of scholars.