Emmanuel College

And my thesis was that in the first era, universities were keepers of scarce knowledge.

So, you know, I, in my s- this is, I gave a convocation speech to Harvard freshmen, and I said, "Look, you know, the founding gift of this university was by John Harvard, our namesake, and it was a gift of four hundred books," which doesn't seem like a lot but was like two-thirds the size of Emmanuel College's library in Cambridge, which is a very established elite British university at the time.

So this was, this was really a founding gift that put Harvard on the map.

And you can think of lots of examples in our history where, um, uh, for example, when there was a great fire in the 1700s, it destroyed a lot of books in the library and the, um, the Harvard Corporation, which are the basically the governing body of the university, told students, "Go home." You know, w-without our books, what are we? And of course, that changed over time.

I was the third of five sons.

He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at 14 years old, where I resided three years and applied myself close to my studies.

But the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.

And my father, now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation and other parts of the mathematics useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be sometime or other my fortune to do.

He set this whole train in motion, which has led to Jason's death.

But the question is, who the hell is he? He was on a three-year research fellowship at Cambridge's philosophy faculty in 2022, and he had a position at Emmanuel College alongside it.

And his thing, the thing he's known for is what he calls race realism.

That's his phrase, not mine.

Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain.

William Whitehead, Fellow of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge, became Vicar of Stoneground in the year 1731.

The annals of his incumbency were doubtless short and simple.

They have not survived.

And political science, which I'm still very interested in.

In fact, my husband, Warren, who died in 2002, one of the highlights that we experienced, we went to Cambridge, England, to Emmanuel College for two summers and studied political science and the history of the British intelligence service, which was really interesting.

Yes.

You think you're going to go study James Bond for two years? It was a

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not the least interesting of an architect's designs are those which are never carried to full fruition the most notable of these was a great palace at winchester begun for charles the second not much of it was built for the king died before it was finished and his successors did not like winchester the uncompleted corps was later adapted so drastically for use as barracks that it ceased to have any rend significance the tomb of charles i for which parliament voted seventy thousand pounds was designed by wren in sixteen seventy eight the drawings preserved at all souls show a domed structure which was to have stood at the east end of st george's chapel windsor within was to be a statue of the martyr king standing on a shield upheld by four allegorical figures alternative treatments are shown for this group in marble and bronze grinling gibbons would no doubt have been the sculptor but as wren's title of the drawings note it was a hu condicionem temporum nondum the nundum gives a hint that wren hoped that it might later be done but the seventy thousand pounds found less worthy employment wren's careful detailed estimates for the work are printed in sir william st john hope's monumental windsor castle with reproductions of the drawings noble as this design was i confess i take more pleasure from wren's design for a monument also in all souls library which sir reginald blomfield reproduces with the note that it was probably drawn by grinley gibbons it shows a lady reclining on a couch not unlike ragi's lady's genie in chelsea old church but she points with a lively gesture to cherubs flying above her in a burst of rays and clouds it shows wren in his most baroque mood and is perhaps his reminiscence of old bernini's monumental manner in scotland he did nothing but the royal hospital at kilmanham near dublin is attributed to him with some reason in sixteen seventy nine he was ordered to view the site but no record remains of his visit and this irish variant of chelsea hospital is not claimed by his son in the list of works the building is simple and dignified with open cloisters round a big quadrangle probably wren did design for it and left some assistant or local architect to supervise its building the best evidence for his authorship is that there was no architect in ireland who could have produced such a design with the possible exception of the designer of beaulieu near drogheda another charitable foundation morden college blackheath is certainly wren's it is an enchanting piece of brickwork with a pedimented centrepiece and lantern as cambridge was the locus of his first completed work of importance pembroke chapel the sheldonian is called in the parentalia the first public performance of the surveyor but it was finished later than the chapel it also gave him the opportunity for one of his greatest achievements the library of trinity his first design was for a circular building with a domed roof but this soon gave place to the scheme that was carried out a long memorandum by wren explains his reasons for the design which was limited by the need of joining the new library to the extension of nevill's court a junction which was not very happily achieved the governing consideration of the elevation to the court was the maintenance of the library floor on the same level as the adjoining chambers unfortunately wren would use two orders despite the fact that the structure of the work was in conflict evidently he was forcing a design naturally of a palladian type of a piano nobile on a lower story which would be the podium of an order it is a case where his ingenuity overbore his artistic sense and he resorted to the doubtful expedient of a range of arches the tympana of which are filled in solid the river front has been criticised on the grounds of an undue austerity but i find it difficult to follow this it is surely a miracle of dignity for the interior of the library there can be nothing but praise ideal in dignity and ideal in convenience wren's book presses have the additional merit of showing gibbon's carving of peculiar excellence and he must not be charged with the overcrowding of the floor by smaller cases needed by modern accession of books wren was less happy in his chapel and cloister at emmanuel college the breaking of the pediment of the central feature by the lantern turret is not in his usual vein but the lantern itself is a very charming composition another related work is the honeywood library in cloister at lincoln cathedral but the library itself is a rather low and not specially distinguished apartment i bring this sly catalogue of wren's miscellaneous works to a close with a return to oxford it is difficult to determine how far he was responsible for the library at queen's college sixteen ninety three because hawksmoor was mixed up with him there but the whole college must be regarded as a wren building there is nothing of hawksmoor's more faithful to his old master's ideas and less influenced by sir john vanbrugh's the two poles between which the lesser man was always oscillating sir reginald blomfield is strongly against attributing the ashmolean to wren but it is difficult to believe that such a building at such a time could have been intrusted to anyone else similarly trinity college chapel sixteen ninety four is somewhat of a mystery it has been said that dean aldridge was the architect and that wren was only called in to advise the quality of the design suggests that wren was the senior partner in the combination there is no confusion with regard to tom tower dr fell dean of christ church commissioned him to build a tower over wolsey's gateway the result is something certainly not tudor but quite certainly a picturesque composition of a high order wren's detail is little like that of the sixteenth century below it but he did the one thing needful he provided a dignified and picturesque portal for the college and it is folly to rebuke a late seventeenth century architect for not entering into the spirit of his predecessors of the early sixteenth The study of the spirit of Gothic work, alike systematic and sympathetic, is a growth of less than a hundred years.

Wren was of his age.

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Okay, so this leads to our day.

I was kicked out of my college at Cambridge, Emmanuel College, because they said that my guide for the hereditary revolution is or could be construed as a rejection of the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion.

They put that in writing and sent it to me.

So they kicked me out.