Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. With about 600 students, 300 graduates, and over 180 fellows, it is the largest college in one of Oxbridge's universities with a number of students. In terms of number of students, it is second only to Homerton College, Cambridge.
Trinity members have won 32 Nobel Prizes out of 98 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college either in Oxford or Cambridge. The five Fields of Medals in mathematics were won by members of the college (out of six awarded to members of British universities) and one Prize Prize was won.
Trinity alumni included six British primates (all Tory or Whig/Liberal), Isaac Newton physicists, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, poet Lord Byron, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell (whom he expelled earlier) back), and Soviet spies, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
Two members of the royal family of England have studied at Trinity and have been awarded degrees as a result: Prince William of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who obtained his MA in 1790, and Prince Charles, who was awarded the lower classes of BA in 1970. Other family members have studied at there without a title, including King Edward VII, King George VI, and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
Trinity has many college associations, including the Trinity Mathematical Society, which is Britain's oldest association of mathematics universities, and the First and Third Trinity Boat Club, a rowing club, which gives its name to the May Ball campus. Along with the school of Christ, Jesus, King and St. John, it also provides some famous members of the Apostles, an intellectual secret society.
In 1848, Trinity hosted a meeting where Cambridge students representing private schools such as Westminster drafted the first formal football rules, known as the Cambridge Rules.
Trinity sister college in Oxford is Christ Church. Like the college, Trinity has been associated with the Westminster School since the re-establishment of school in 1560, and the Master is a school governor.
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History
Foundations
The college was founded by Henry VIII in 1546, from the merger of two existing universities: Michaelhouse (founded by Hervey de Stanton in 1324), and King's Hall (founded by Edward II in 1317 and restored by Edward III in 1337). At that time, Henry had seized the church grounds from the monasteries and monasteries. Universities in Oxford and Cambridge, which are religious and wealthy institutions, are expected to be next. The King should pass the Parliamentary Act allowing him to suppress (and confiscate property) every college he wants. The universities used their contacts to appeal to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. The Queen persuades her husband not to close it, but to create a new college. The king did not want to use the royal funds, so he instead merged the two colleges (King's Hall and Michaelhouse) and seven hostels namely Physwick (formerly part of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), Gregory, Ovyng's, Catherine, Garratt, Margaret's and Tyler. form Trinity.
Nevile Expansion
Contrary to popular belief, the monastic lands given by Henry VIII are not enough of their own to ensure an eventual increase in Trinity. In terms of architecture and royal associations, it was not until the Mastership of Thomas Nevile (1593-1615) that Trinity assumed both spaciousness and court associations with the class of government that has distinguished it since the Civil War. In his childhood, Trinity has been deeply indebted to the nearby St. John college: in exaggerated terms, Roger Ascham Trinity is little more than a colonia deducta >. His first four Masters were educated at St. John's, and it took up to about 1575 for the two college application numbers to draw even, the position where they have remained since the Civil War. In terms of wealth, Trinity's wealth now precedes the previous fluctuations; The Nevile building campaign pushed the college into debt that only appeared in the 1640s, and Leadership Richard Bentley had a devastating impact on applications and finances. Bentley himself is famous for building a very expensive staircase at the Tuan Lodge, and due to his repeated refusal to retreat despite requests from the Fellows.
Most of Trinity's main buildings date back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Thomas Nevile, who became Master of Trinity in 1593, rebuilt and redesigned most of the colleges. This work included the expansion and completion of the Great Court, and the construction of Nevile's Court between the Great Court and the River Cam. Nevile's Court was completed in the late 17th century when the Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was built.
Modern day
In the 20th century, Trinity College, St. John's College, and King's College for decades were the main recruitment area for Cambridge Apostles, an elite intellectual secret society.
In 2011, the John Templeton Foundation bestowed Trinity College's Master, astrophysicist Martin Rees, the controversial Million Templeton Prize, to "affirm the spiritual dimension of life".
Trinity is the richest Oxbridge college, with land ownership alone worth  £ 800 million. Trinity is sometimes recommended to be the second, third or fourth richest landowner in England (or in Britain) - after the Crown Estate, the National Trust and the Church of England. (The variant of this legend is repeated in Tom Sharpe's novel Porterhouse Blue.) In 2005, Trinity's annual rental income from its property was reportedly over Ã,  £ 20 million.
Trinity has:
- 3400 acres (14 km 2 ) residential facilities in Port Felixstowe, the busiest container port of England
- Cambridge Science Park
- O2 Arena in London (formerly Millenium Dome)
Legends
Lord Byron is said to have kept a pet while living on campus.
The second legend is that it may run from Cambridge to Oxford on land which is only owned by Trinity. Some varieties of this legend exist - others call the combined land of Trinity College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Oxford, from Trinity College, Cambridge and Christ Church, Oxford, or St. John's College, Oxford and St. John's College, Cambridge. All is almost certainly wrong.
Trinity is often cited as the inventor of the English, less sweet, crÃÆ'¨me brÃÆ' Â »lÃÆ' Â © e version, known as" Trinity burnt cream ", although the campus chefs are sometimes known to call it the" Trinity Creme Brulee " The first-ever combustion, introduced at the Trinity High Table in 1879, was in fact very different from the French recipe, the earliest being from 1691.
Trinity in Camberwell
Trinity College has a long-term relationship with Parish of St George's, Camberwell, in South London. Students from the College have helped to run holiday schemes for children from parishes since 1966. The relationship was formalized in 1979 with the establishment of Trinity in Camberwell as an existing charity Commission (no. 279447) for providing, promoting, assisting and fostering the advancement of education and eliminating the needs and other charitable objects for the benefit of the community at St George's Parish, Camberwell, and the environment. '
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Buildings and reasons
Great Gate
The Great Gate is the main entrance to the campus, leading to the Great Court. The founding statue of college, Henry VIII, stands in a niche above the doorway. In his right hand he held the table legs in place of the original swords and myths about how the switch was done and by whom. In 1704, the University's first astronomical observatory was built on the gate of the house. Underneath the founding statue is the emblem of Edward III's arm, the founder of King's Hall, and of the five sons who survived to maturity, and William of Hatfield, whose shield was empty when he died as an infant, before delivering weapons.
Great Court
The Great Court (built in principle 1599-1608) was the brainchild of Thomas Nevile, who destroyed several of the buildings on this site, including almost all of Michaelhouse's former campuses. The only remaining Michaelhouse building was replaced by the current Kitchen (designed by James Essex) in 1770-1775. The Master's Lodge is the official residence of the Sovereign when in Cambridge.
King's Hostel (built 1377-1416) is located just north of the Great Court, behind the Clock Tower, this (along with King's Gate), the only remaining building of the King's Hall.
Bishop's Hostel (built 1671, Robert Minchin): Separate building to the southwest of the Great Court, and named after John Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The additional building was built in 1878 by Arthur Blomfield.
Nevile Court
Nevile's Court (built 1614) is located between the Great Court and the river, the court was created by a legacy by a college masters, Thomas Nevile, originally two thirds of the current length and without the Wren Library. The appearance of the upstairs was renovated a little two centuries later. Cloisters walk around the field, providing sheltered sidewalks from the back of the Great Hall to the campus library and reading room as well as the Wren Library and the New Court.
The Wren Library (built 1676-1695, Christopher Wren) is located at the western end of Nevile's Court, the Wren is one of Cambridge's most famous and well-endowed libraries. Among the important objects are two First Shakespeare Folio, a 14th century manuscript of The Vision of Piers Plowman, and letters written by Sir Isaac Newton. Trinity's Eadwine Psalter but stored by the Cambridge University Library. Below the building is the delightful Cloisters Library of Wren, where students can enjoy the beautiful view of the Great Hall in front of them, and the rivers and backs directly behind.
New Court
The New Courts (or King's Court built in 1825, William Wilkins) is located south of Nevile's Court, and built in the Tudor-Gothic style, this palace is famous for its large tree in the middle. A myth sometimes circulated that this was the tree where the apple fell to Isaac Newton; in fact, Newton was at Woolsthorpe when he concluded his theory of gravity - and the tree was a chestnut tree. Many other "New Courts" in colleges were built at this time to accommodate the entry of new students.
Other court
Whewell's Court (actually two courts with all three of them, built 1860 & 1868, architect Anthony Salvin) is located across the street from the Great Court, and was fully paid by William Whewell, Master of the college from 1841 until his death in 1866. Range north then renovated by WD Caroe.
Angel Court (built 1957-1959, H. C. Husband) is located between Great Court and Trinity Street, and is shared with the Wolfson House to accommodate first-year students.
The Wolfson Building (built 1968-1972, Architects Co-Partnership) is located south of Whewell's Court, on a podium above shops, this building resembles a brick ziggurat, and is used exclusively for first year accommodation. Renovated during the 2005-06 academic year, rooms are now almost all en-suite.
The Blue Boar Court (built in 1989, MJP Architects and Wright) lies to the south of the Wolfson Building, on a ground floor podium, and includes upstairs some Georgian buildings around on Trinity Street, Green Street and Sidney Street.
Burrell's Field (built 1995, MJP Architects) is located on a site west of the College main buildings, opposite the Cambridge University Library.
There is also a lecture hall above the shops on Bridge Street and Jesus Lane, behind Whewell's Court, and postgraduate accommodation on Portugal Street and other streets around Cambridge.
Chapel
Trinity College Chapel dates from the mid-16th century and is listed in Grade I.
There are a number of caveats to the former Fellows of Trinity in the Chapel, including statues, brasses, and two memorials for graduates and Fellows who died during the World War.
The Chapel is a performance hall for a college choir consisting of about 30 Choral Scholars and 2 Organ Scholars, all of whom are regular undergraduate members in college.
Grounds
The Fellows' Park is located on the west side of Queen's Road, opposite the drive leading to Backs.
The Fellows' Bowling Green is located north of the Great Court, between King's Hostel and the river. This is a site for many garden tutoring parties in the summer months, while Lord Garden is behind the Master's Lodge.
The Old Fields is located on the west side of Grange Road, next to Burrell's Field. Currently campus gym houses, locker rooms, squash courts, badminton courts, rugby, hockey and soccer fields along with tennis courts and netball.
Trinity Bridge
The Trinity Bridge is a three-story stone bridge built across the River Cam. Built from Portland stone in 1765 with James Essex design to replace the previous bridge built in 1651 and is a registered class I building.
Gallery
Academic profile
For the last 20 years, college has always come at least eighth in the Tompkins Table, which occupies 29 Cambridge colleges based on the academic achievement of their undergraduate students, and for the last six occasions have been in the first place. The average position in the Tompkins Table during this period is between the second and third, higher than the others. By 2016, 45% of Trinity students reach Firsts, 12 percentage points above second-place Pembroke - the latest record among Cambridge colleges.
Reception
Currently, about 50% of Trinity graduates attend independent schools. In 2006, the school received a smaller proportion of students from public schools (39%) than any other Cambridge college, and on an average of three years rolled out, the school has received a smaller proportion of public school students ( 42%) compared with other colleges everywhere. Cambridge or Oxford. According to the Good School Guide , about 7% of UK school age students attend private schools, although this figure refers to students in all school years - a higher proportion attended private schools in their last two years before the University. Trinity states that he ignores what type of school the applicant visits, and accepts students solely on the basis of their academic prospects.
Trinity recognized the first female graduate student in 1976 and first lady undergraduate in 1978, and appointed the first woman in 1977.
Scholarships and prizes
Scholars, along with the Master and Fellows, form the Foundation of the College .
In order of seniority:
The Beneficiary of Research Scholars receives funds for postgraduate study. Usually a person must graduate in the top ten percent of a person's class and continue for graduate studies at Trinity. They were given the first preference in the assignment of the lecture hall and the number was about 25.
The Senior Scholars consists of those who achieve degrees with honors degree First or higher each year after the first of the undergraduate tripos, but also, those who earn high grade grades in their first year. The college pays them a salary of £ 250 per year and allows them to choose a room directly following the research scholars. There are about 40 senior scholars at one time.
The Junior Scholars are those who are not senior scholars but still earn First in their first year. Their salary is £ 175 a year. They were given preference in voting rooms for 2 years instead of clerics.
This scholarship can be maintained for the academic year after which the results are achieved. If a scholarship is awarded but the student does not continue at Trinity then only a quarter of the salary is given. However all the students who reached the First were awarded an additional prize of £ 240 after the announcement of the results.
All final year students who achieve a first class award in their final exams are offered full financial support for reading for a Master's degree in Cambridge (this funding is also sometimes available for students who achieve a high second class honors sign). Other support is available for PhD degrees. Higher Education also offers a number of other scholarships and open scholarships for external applicants. The right to walk on grass in college courts is exclusive to Fellows from campus and their guests. However, academics have the right to walk on the Scholars' Lawn page, but only with full academic outfits.
Tradition
Great Court Run
The Great Court Run is an attempt to run a 400-yard perimeter round of the Great Court (about 367m), within 43 seconds of a striking twelve hour. Students traditionally try to complete the circuit on Matriculation Dinner. This is a rather difficult challenge: one must be a fast runner to achieve it, but that is by no means necessary to be an Olympic standard, even if there are statements made in the media.
It is widely believed that Sebastian Coe successfully completed the run when he defeated Steve Cram in the charity race in October 1988. Coe's time on October 29, 1988 was reported by Norris McWhirter to 45.52 seconds, but actually 46.0 seconds (confirmed by the video tape) while Cram is 46.3 seconds. The clock on that day takes 44.4 seconds (ie, "old" time, maybe two days after the last roll) and the video film confirms that Coe is about 12 meters from the finish line when a decisive final blow takes place. Television commentators are dishonest in stating that lethal bell sounds can be incorporated in striking time, allowing Coe to run successfully to claim success.
One of the reasons the Cram and Coe Olympic sprinters find such a tough challenge is that they start in the middle of one side of the pitch, thus having to negotiate four right-angle rounds. In the days when students start in the corner, it only takes three turns.
The Great Court Run is depicted in the Chariots of Fire film about the British Olympic runner of 1924.
Until the mid-1990s, the run was traditionally tried by first year students at midnight after their matriculation dinner. Following a number of accidents to graduate students walking the slippery streets, the college now organizes a more formal Supreme Court, at 12 noon on matriculation dinner: the challenge is open to students, many of whom compete in luxury clothing.
Open concert
On a Sunday every June (a definite date depending on the university term), College Choir performs a short concert as soon as the clock is 12 o'clock. Known as Singing from the Tower , half of the choirs sang from above the Great Gate, while the other half sang from the top of the Clock Tower about 60 meters, giving a powerful antiphonal effect. In mid-concert, the University of Cambridge Brass Ensemble appeared from above the Queen tower.
Later on the same day, the College Choir gave a second open concert, known as Singing on the River, where they performed madrigal and arrangement of popular songs from raft punts illuminated by lanterns or fairy lights in River. For the final, the illusion of John Wilbye Draw, a sweet night , the raft is not moored and moved down to give the fade out effect. As a tradition, however, this last concert began only in the mid-1980s, when the College Choir first acquired female members. In the years before this, the annual concert on the river was awarded by the Madrigal Society University. Mallard Mallard
Another tradition relates to an artificial duck known as Mallard, which should be on the ceiling of the Great Hall. Students occasionally move ducks from one rafter to another without permission from the campus. This is considered difficult; access to the Hall outside the meal is prohibited and the rafter is very high, so it is not attempted for several years. During Easter in 2006, Mallard fell from the rafters by one of the pigeons that entered the Hall through the top windows. It was restored by students in 2016, and only visible from the end of the hall.
Legs and bike chairs
The stick held by the statue of Henry VIII mounted over the Great Gate of the Middle Ages was replaced by the foot of the chair as a joke many years ago. It stays there to this day: when in the 1980s students exchanged legs of chairs for bicycle pumps, Kolese replaced the legs of chairs.
Over the years, it is customary for students to place a high bike on a tree branch at the center of the New Court. Usually invisible except in winter, when the foliage falls, such bikes tend to remain for several years before being removed by the authorities. The students then put another bike.
College Competition
The college remains a major rival of St. John's who is a major competitor in sports and academia (John is located next to Trinity). It has spawned a number of anecdotes and myths. This is often cited as the reason why older courts of Trinity generally do not have a J ladder, although it includes other letters in alphabetical order. A far more likely reason is the absence of the letter J in the Latin alphabet, and that the old court of St. John's College also has no J ladder. There are also two small muzzle fire cannons on a green bowling pointing towards John, although this orientation may be a coincidence. Another story that is sometimes told is the reason why the hour at Trinity Great Court strikes every hour twice is that the St. John people once complained about the noise it caused.
Minor traditions
Preschool clothes at Trinity College are easily distinguished from the black dresses favored by most other Cambridge colleges. They are a dark blue color with black facings. They are expected to be subjected to formal events such as formal spaces and also when scholars see Deans of Higher Education in formal capacity.
Trinity students, along with the King's and St. John's, were the first to be presented to the Congregation of the House of Regents at graduation.
College College
Every night before dinner, grace is read by a senior fellow who leads, as follows:
- Benedict, Domine, old nos et dona, (Bless us, God, and these gifts)
- quae de largitate old sumus sumpturi, (which, through your generosity, we will accept)
- and confess, ut illis salubriter nutriti (and grant that we, are being fed massively by them,)
- tibi debetum obsequium praestare valeamus, (may be able to offer you the services we need to pay)
- per Christum Dominum herb. (through Christ our Lord)
If both tables of height are used then the following antiphonal formula begins with the main gift:
- A. Oculi omnium in te sperant Domine: (eyes are all on you, God)
- B. Et tu das escam illis in tempore. (and you give them their food, in time.)
- A. Aperis tu manum tuam, (You open your hands)
- B. Et implies omne benedictione in animals. (and give it to all your blessing beings.)
After the meal, a simple benedicto formula is spoken.
People associated with college
Famous allies and alumni
The Parish of Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge contains the tomb of 27 Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge which is also largely celebrated in Trinity College Chapel with brass plaques.
Nobel Prize Winner
Fields Medalists
Trinity College has also claimed a number of Medal Fields winners (commonly regarded as the mathematical equivalents of the Nobel Prize): Michael Atiyah, Alan Baker, Richard Borcherds and Timothy Gowers. Atiyah is also the winner of the Abel Prize.
British Prime Minister
Other Trinity politicians include Robert Devereux, Earl Essex, retainer of Elizabeth I; William Waddington, French Prime Minister; Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland; Jawaharlal Nehru, first and longest Indian Prime Minister; Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India; Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore; Samir Rifai, Jordanian Prime Minister and William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Home Secretary Lady Thatcher and the next Deputy Prime Minister.
Masters
Head of Trinity College called Master.
This role is the appointment of the Crown, previously made by Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Currently Fellows of the College choose a new Master, and the role of Royal is only nominal. The first master, John Redman, was appointed in 1546. The six Masters after R.A. Butler has been a Fellows of College before becoming a Master (Honorary Fellow in Martin Rees case). The last master is Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow (until the end of June 2012). He was replaced by Sir Gregory Winter on October 2, 2012.
See also
- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, partly funded by Trinity
Note
External links
- Trinity College, Cambridge's official website
- The Trinity College website, Cambridge Access
- Trinity College Isaac Newton Trust, founded in 1988
- The painting at Trinity College, Cambridge, the BBC art project.
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