delightful things in Cambridge.  Dr. Caius had been a Fellow of Gonville Hall, and, having taken up medicine, continued his studies at the University of Padua; and after considerable European travel practised in England with such success that he was appointed Physician to the Court of Edward VI.  Philip and Mary showed him great favour, and his reputation grew owing to his success in treating the sweating sickness.  Having acquired much wealth, he decided to refound his old college, and the Italian Gothic of the two gateways is evidence of his delight in the style with which he had become familiar at Padua and elsewhere.  He built the two wings of the Caius Court, leaving the Court open towards the south.  The idea of his three gates, beginning with the simple Gate of Humility, leading to the Gate of Virtue, and so to that of Honour, is very fitting, for such sermons in stones could scarcely find a better place than in a university.  Caius has many famous medical men, treasuring the memory of Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, and of Dr. Butts, who was Henry VIII.’s physician.

Trinity hall.—­As already mentioned, Trinity Hall was founded two years after Gonville made his modest foundation.  It is specialized in relation to law as its neighbour is to medicine.  Although architecturally of less account, its modern work is free from anything obtrusively out of keeping with academic tradition.  Salvin’s uninspired eastern side of the court containing the entrance was built after a fire in 1852, and is typical of his harsh and unsympathetic work.  Behind the Georgian front of the north side of this court, there is a good deal of the fabric of the Tudor buildings, and some of the lecture-rooms, with their oak panelling and big chimneys, are most picturesque.

On the west side is the hall, dating from 1743, and the modern combination room, containing a curious old semi-circular table, with a counter-balance railway for passing the wine from one corner to the other.  The chapel is on the south side, and is a few years earlier than the hall.

Corpus Christi.—­Within two years from the founding of Trinity Hall Corpus Christi came into being, the gild of St. Benedict’s Church, in conjunction with that of St. Mary the Great, having obtained a charter for this purpose from Edward III. in 1352, Henry Duke of Lancaster, the King’s cousin, being alderman at that time.

This was the last of the colleges founded in the first period of college-building, and it has managed to preserve under the shadow of the Saxon tower of the parish church, which was for long the college chapel, one of the oldest and most attractive courts in Cambridge.  Several of the windows and doors have been altered in later times, but otherwise three sides of the court are completely mediaeval.  Having retained this fine relic, the college seems to have been content to let all the rest go, when, in 1823, Wilkins, whose