The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos: The publication of which is always looked forward to by members of the University and the learned world in general with great interest, was issued yesterday morning, when the customary excited scenes were enacted in and around, the Senate House; the floor of which was taken possession of by the Undergraduates as soon as the doors were opened. The usual formalities having been done through, the Lists of Wrangles read over, copies thereof were thrown from the galleries to be scrambled for by the excited occupants of the hall below. Who soon after dispersed themselves to congratulate those fellow Collegians whose names were included therein. Of these there were eighty-nine in number; the following being the first twelve: Hobson, Christ’s, Derby; Steggall, Trinity, London; Graham, Caius, Dublin; Edwards, Sidney, Seaham and Pensent, St. John’s, Edgbaston, (equal); Macaulay, King’s Hodnet … (continues)
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920