_Life and Letters of Sir C. Lyell_, ii. 38. In the same letter he expresses his astonishment at finding that Whewell, while writing one of his papers on the Tides, was passing through the press _four other works_.
The inscription runs: munificentia · fultus · Alex. J. B. Hope, generosi · hisce · ædibus · antiquam · speciem · restituit. W. Whewell. Mag. Collegii. A. D. MDCCCXLIII. Mr Hope gave £1000, and the Master himself £250; but the liberality of the College, which spent some £4000 before the work was finished, is unrecorded. It was on this occasion that somebody wrote a parody on _The House that Jack Built_, beginning:
This is the House that Hope built. This is the Master, rude and rough, Who lives in the House that Hope built. These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff, Who toady the Master, rude and rough, Who lives in the House that Hope built.
The _Times_, February 25 and 26, 1847. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 285, prints a letter from Archdeacon Hare, who had been disturbed by reports of the Vice-Chancellor’s vehemence.
The visit of Queen Victoria to the University in 1843.
_A Letter to the Rev. W. Whewell, B.D., Master of Trinity College, etc. By an Undergraduate._ 8vo. London, 1843.
_The Victory of Faith, and other Sermons._ By J. C. Hare, M. A. 8vo. Cambridge, 1840, p. x.
Dr Lightfoot’s Sermon, preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, March 18, 1866.
They appeared in _Punch_ for March 17, 1866.
Memoir by Sir John Herschel, _Proceedings of Royal Society_, XVI., p. lvi.
Bishop Goodwin’s article in _Macmillan’s Magazine_ for December, 1881, p. 140.
We are not sure that he ever allowed the _Origin of Species_ to be admitted into the College Library. It was certainly refused more than once, being probably dismissed with the expression which he was fond of using when, as Chairman of the Seniority, he read the list of books proposed—‘a worthless publication.’
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