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Christ's College Lodge - At a Meeting of the Syndicate it was agreed to accept WW's offer to prepare for the Syndics of the Press an edition of Bishop Sanderson's De Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem.

Christ's College - Cartmell agrees with Whewell that the Vice-Chancellor and the Master of Pembroke College will sign the report of the Syndicate appointed to revise the Statutes of the University: the protest Whewell has drawn up ought to be signed by all those who dissent from the report. Cartmell wishes the syndicate would break up for the summer since they are so flushed with victory they have lost 'the power of considering any point with calmness, or except with the hope of curtailing or destroying some constituted authority'. Accompanied by 11 pages of notes about an unidentified publication.

Written from Christ's College Lodge.

Christ's College Lodge - JC has read WW's recommendations regarding the statute respecting the Professors, and as far as he can see, WW has met every point that has been suggested. JC gives suggestions regarding the power of the electors: 1. 'Would it be well to reserve this power [to make changes to the statute] to the electors in the statute? 2. 'Would it also be desirable to impose upon the electors a periodical visitational duty'. 3. 'Would it be right expressly to recognise the power of any one of the electors to hold these Professorships?' 4. 'Might the Vice-Chancellor be asked to print (privately) the statute as it is suggested to be drawn, and to send it round to the electors?'

Christ's College Lodge - JC's suggestions for altering the Statutes [enclosed].

Includes a printed letter from James Cartmell, completed in manuscript with the latest running total in the vote for the Chancellorship.

Letters dated 23 Mar. 1867 - 18 May 1867.

Christ's College Lodge - Thanks WW for having preached the sermon before the University and expressing 'the grief which we all partook' of the death of Dr French.

MS notes around printed text, perhaps in the hand of Richard Shilleto. At top: 'I was told by a sometime pupil now Fellow of his college that he hoped the age of Cartmell might show itself equal to the age of Pericles. This provoked the following' - two lines of Greek verse, presented as a fragment of Eupolis, with an English translation.

The 'age of Cartmell' probably refers to James Cartwell's first spell as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1849, as the printed Latin epigram concerns an occasion on which the Vice-Chancellor mistakenly attempted to assign Phaedrus's Fables, a Latin work, to 'S' as a Greek text for him to teach. First lines: 'Si literarum vult quis esse Graecarum / Professor, adsit...'. An English verse translation follows: 'Each, who would teach the tongue of Greece, is / To give to me a triple Thesis...'