Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth–Century Cambridge Smith Stray Warwick

Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century CambridgeAuthor(s): Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray, Andrew Warwick, Christopher Stray, David McKitterick, Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Gillian R Sutherland, John R Gibbins, John Wilkes, Jonathan Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9780851157832, 978-0851157832\nSynopsis\nCollege-university relationships, the role of examinations, the politics of curriculum: papers amplify the picture of developments in Cambridge during the century.\n\nIt was in the 19th and early 20th centuries that Cambridge, characterised in the previous century as a place of indolence and complacency, underwent the changes which produced the institutional structures which persist today. Foremost among them was the rise of mathematics as the dominant subject within the university, with the introduction of the Classical Tripos in 1824, and Moral and Natural Sciences Triposes in 1851. Responding t.