Reasons Why I Shall not Send my Son, Gustavus Frederic, to Trinity College, Cambridge
Mr Punch, pseud. [William M Thackeray] *
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Universities, Education, Status, Class |
Attacks William Whewell, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, for not allowing undergraduates to 'sit down before him'. Feels ashamed of a gentleman standing before somebody who has 'written a Bridgewater treatise' | |
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