Low Living, High Thinking at Cambridge

This year the University of Cambridge celebrated its 800th birthday, an anniversary no less secure than any other of thirteenth-century origin, with an “anniversary portrait”, a handsome volume illustrated with the reminiscences of recent and not so recent alumni. Assisted by lengthier contributions on various aspects of the place, the fragments assembled in the collection, edited by Peter Pagnamenta, enable the Master of Trinity College, Lord Rees, to predict a brighter future for the University than for “any other patch of ground in the world”.

Continue reading Peter Linehan’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement.