University of

Cambridge
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IS THE WORLD’S THIRD
OLDEST SURVIVING UNIVERSITY AND WAS FOUNDED IN 1209
BY SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. IT HAS
MANY SIMILARITIES WITH OXFORD, AND THE TWO
UNIVERSITIES ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS OXBRIDGE.
THE UNIVERSITY HAS 31 COLLEGES. IN ADDITION TO
BEING ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY ITSELF, STUDENTS
MUST ALSO BE ADMITTED TO ONE OF THE COLLEGES.
EACH COLLEGE HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS.
THE OLDEST COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY IS
PETERHOUSE, WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN 1284.
CHANCES OF FINDING THE BOOK YOU NEED OR A QUIET
PLACE TO WORK AT CAMBRIDGE ARE GOOD. THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE HAS OVER 100 LIBRARIES. THE
CENTRAL LIBRARY ALONE HAS APPROXIMATELY 8 MILLION
VOLUMES, AND IS ABLE TO REQUEST A FREE COPY OF EVERY
BOOK PUBLISHED IN THE UK AND IRELAND.
Another of its well-
known libraries, the
Wren Library, the
Trinity college
library, hosts A.A.
Milne’s manuscript of
Winnie-the-Pooh,
books from Isaac
Newton’s personal
library, and early
Shakespeare
editions. 
Cambridge has a very long list of notable alumni from across the
disciplines. Among the many there are Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac
Newton, and Stephen Hawking, currently the Director of Research at
the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
TWO PARTS OF QUEEN’S COLLEGE AND WAS THE FIRST
BRIDGE BUILT USING MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES. IT WAS
DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ETHERIDGE AND BUILT BY JAMES
ESSEX IN 1749, WHO ARRANGED THE TIMBERS IN A SERIES
OF TANGENTS WITH RADIAL MEMBERS TO TIE THE
TANGENTS TOGETHER AND CREATE A SELF-SUPPORTIVE
STRUCTURE. A POPULAR MYTH IS THAT SIR ISAAC NEWTON
BUILT THE BRIDGE.
Affiliates of Cambridge University have won 90 Nobel Prizes, the
most of any institution in the world. Nobel Prizes have been won by
Cambridge affiliates in every category. Frederick Sanger, Nobel
laureate in Chemistry from St John’s College, and a fellow of King’s
College, is one of a very small handful of Nobel laureates who has won
the Nobel Prize twice!
Whether you are hoping to dip a blade into the River Cam–the main
river flowing through Cambridge-as a member of one of the rowing
teams, or you want to participate in something else, the University
offers a wide array of sports. It even offers sports like real tennis, and
fives, which have gone extinct everywhere else in the UK. Students
can try out for the Cambridge University teams – ‘the Blues’ - or
participate at their colleges.
At the end of a long day in the library, there is nothing quite like the
experience of a formal hall. These are formal meals held at the
colleges. The nature of formal hall varies at the various colleges in
terms of the dress, and how often they are per week. Generally, they
are three or more course meals that take place in beautiful college
dining halls and are complete with beverage and great conversation.
University members are expected to dress in formal attire and often to
also wear their academic dress.
Thanks for attention!