An account of the proceedings at the celebration of the five hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the College, June 22, 1898.

  • Gonville and Caius College
Date:
1898
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Credit: An account of the proceedings at the celebration of the five hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the College, June 22, 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    to an unaccustomed fervour of admiration as he records how he once saw and heard the aged Thurlow ; and how a few vigorous sentences from the veteran overthrew all opposition, and created an important legal precedent? And if we had no other evidence that he had better qualities, the poet Cowper’s praise would surely complete what Crabbe’s gratitude had left in doubt. So ends the i8th century; but a member of the Canadian Church will be pardoned for mentioning a name illustrious in its annals, that of JACOB Mountain, whom Cambridge sent to Canada as first bishop of the enormous territory then undivided, and who, by his admirable labours and example, did so much to create what is now a flourish- ing and well-organized hierarchy^®. And now we enter the present century, with its wealth of biography and memoir and tradition. The celebrity of Vince and Brinkley” and Woodhouse, in the closing years of the previous century, was worthily continued in another path by the great lawyers Alderson and Bicker- STETH. And as we come nearer and nearer to our own time, and to those whom some of you, my brethren, knew personally, it would not become me to speak by hearsay. Of one only, who graduated in that famous year, 1848 (our 500th anniversary), may it be permitted to say a word. Bishop Mackenzie is not only famous in the list of great missionaries, but among our College worthies he is remem- bered for a youthful utterance of splendid naivetl, which we hope will live as the inspiration of our younger students^®. Nor can I omit mention here (as in duty bound) of that 10 See the excellent monograph by Rev. H. Stuart, Rector of Three Rivers, Que., for the history of Bishop Mountain’s labours. 11 Gunning (i. 8i) records that Brinkley’s disputation was the most cele- brated in the memory of the University. A special form of words was adopted by the Moderator in congratulating him. 12 When Mackenzie’s health was proposed by Bishop Stanley, who referred to the fact that there were no less than nine Caius wranglers, Mackenzie said in reply “Caius men had only done what was natural under the circumstances.” [Goodwin’s Life of Mackenzie, p. 23.]