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The Senate of the University of Cambridge has passed a grace for the recognition of Cavendish College as a public hotel of the university. The institution which has thus been at length received into the university as an independent factor was originally begun in 1873 with three students, under the title of County College. The Duke of Devonshire, who is chancellor of the university, subsequently permitted the college to assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train in the art of teaching those students who desire to become schoolmasters, and to secure the greatest possible economy in cost as well as time. In these aims it has succeeded. Its students obtain their degrees at the age of nineteen, and it is found that the annual change of Pound84 is sufficient to cover all expenses of college and university life. The college comprises students of all denominations. Its educational success is proved by the facts that twenty-six of its members have reached the B. A. degree (twelve of them in honors) and three the M. A. degree, and that there are now eighty-four students in residence. The low charge of Pound84 per annum was of course calculated to pay only with a considerable number of students. Hence in the early years of the institution there was an annual deficit, but in 1880 there was a surplus after meeting all working expenses of Pound230, and this year it is anticipated that the balance on revenue account will reach Pound1000. - [Ex.

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