He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

The bid from A. Belanger and Sons of Cambridge, Mass., which listed the same officers as Hughes, was $600 per joint.

The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.

Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, in 1953, and he attended King's College School, Cambridge, and The Leys School, Cambridge.

Esquisse d ’ un Programme was published in the two-volume proceedings Geometric Galois Actions ( Cambridge University Press, 1997 ).

The case was designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design Ltd

He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

His thesis advisor in Cambridge was David Wheeler.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

Personal networking was used for the initial recruitment particularly from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Aberdeen.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships.

Part of West Cambridge joined the new town of Belmont in 1859, and the rest of West Cambridge was renamed Arlington in 1867 ; Brighton was annexed by Boston in 1874.

In a 2003 European Commission report, TU / e was ranked as 3rd among European research universities ( after Cambridge and Oxford, at equality with TU Munich and thus making it the highest ranked Technical University in Europe ), based on the impact of its scientific research.

Domestically, the LSE is the only British University, alongside the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, to have never ranked outside the top 10 in any newspaper compiled league table.

Only 5 universities in Britain have never been ranked outside the top 10, with Oxford, Cambridge, University of Warwick, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics having become constant features at the summit of national ranking tables.

The unofficial Tompkins Table comparing academic performance ranked King's nineteenth out of a total of twenty-nine rated colleges at the University of Cambridge in 2008 ; the college's position has fluctuated between tenth and twenty-first over the years 2000 – 2008.

Out of 132 universities and colleges, the OU was ranked 43rd in the Times Higher Education Table of Excellence in 2008, between the University of Reading and University of the Arts London ; it was rated highly in specific subjects such as art history, sociology ( below Oxford and Cambridge ) and development studies.

* History of Art ( ranked 17th equal with Cambridge, School of Oriental and African Studies and Aberdeen )

In the University guide 2011 by GUARDIAN, the Anthropology Department of Goldsmiths was ranked as 3rd in UK, followed by Oxford and Cambridge.

The Cambridge Farmers ’ Market is now ranked as one of the top 10 markets in the country by Best Health Magazine.

St Andrews is currently ranked as the fifth best university in the UK according to most recent university league tables, ( see Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom ) and is described by the Sunday Times as the leading multifaculty alternative to Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The University of Leeds was ranked in 8th place in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the best result in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and ranking behind only 3 universities not previously in the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of London systems (# 4-University of Manchester, No. 5-University of Edinburgh and No. 7-University of Nottingham ).

England's universities include some of the highest-ranked universities in the world ; the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and University College London are all ranked in the global top 10 in the 2010 QS World University Rankings.

Reputed as " Cambridge of the East " by Joseph Needham ( twice visited ZJU in 1944 ) in China's modern history of higher education, National Chekiang University's was consistently ranked as among top 3 in the nation during that time.

In 2011 they ranked 712 universities, with the University of Cambridge in the UK, Harvard University in the USA and MIT on top.

Thus smaller, technical universities, such as Eindhoven ( Netherlands ) and Technical University Munich ( Germany ) are ranked third and forth, behind Cambridge, and followed by University of Edinburgh.

For medicine, the school ranked top in the quality of its research in London, and fourth nationally ( behind Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh ); for dentistry, the school was awarded joint first ranking ( along with Manchester ).

* The Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, returned in Hospital Subjects, was ranked joint 1st with Cambridge and Edinburgh in terms of 3 * and 4 * outputs and was joint 7th overall out of 28.

In 2011 the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, based on a survey of 13, 388 academics over 131 countries which was then the largest evaluation of academic reputation to date found that both Cambridge and Oxford belonged to the elite group of six universities touted as the ' globally recognised super brands '; Cambridge ranked 3rd, Oxford 6th.

As of 2012, Cambridge has been ranked above Oxford in three out of the four major UK university league tables.

Cambridge has been ranked 1st and Oxford 2nd in the tables compiled by the Guardian, and The Sunday Times, and 3rd behind the London School of Economics in the The Complete University Guide, whereas Oxford is ranked 1st and Cambridge 2nd in The Times Good University Guide.

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).

By 1920, Cambridge was one of the main industrial cities of New England, with nearly 120, 000 residents.

By the end of the 20th century, Cambridge had one of the most expensive housing markets in the Northeastern United States.

King's College, Cambridge | King's College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge

It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

Smith was not among those granted annuities by the 16th Earl, but Edward's tutor, Thomas Fowle, a former fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, was rewarded with one in 1558.

He then obtained a DSc from London and served one year at Cambridge University as a demonstrator of mechanical engineering before being appointed as the first Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Nottingham, but he left after less than a year.

He declined an honorary doctorate of music from University of Cambridge in 1877, but accepted one from the University of Breslau in 1879, and composed the Academic Festival Overture as a gesture of appreciation.

An investigation of extant Canterbury manuscripts shows that one possible survivor is the St. Augustine Gospels, now in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Manuscript ( MS ) 286.

This can be seen comparing the Bahá ' í approach to history and the future to that of the theory of The Clash of Civilizations on the one hand and the development of a posthegemony system on the other ( compared with work of Robert Cox, for example, in Approaches to World Order, ( Robert Cox & Timonthy Sinclair eds, Cambridge University Press, 1996 ).

" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.

As an extreme example of the nature of light-slowing in matter, two independent teams of physicists were able to bring light to a " complete standstill " by passing it through a Bose-Einstein Condensate of the element rubidium, one team at Harvard University and the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge, Mass., and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, also in Cambridge.

Examination of the remaining manuscripts has determined that one possible survivor of Mellitus ' books is the St. Augustine Gospels, now in Cambridge, as Corpus Christi College, MS ( manuscript ) 286.

Applications must be made at least three months early, and, with only minor exceptions ( e. g., Organ Scholars ), are mutually exclusive for first undergraduate degrees so, in any one year, candidates may only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both.

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.

This understanding of a republic as a distinct form of government from a liberal democracy is one of the main theses of the Cambridge School of historical analysis.

For example, Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts appear to the casual traveler as one large city, while locally they each are quite culturally different and occupy different counties.

According to Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, who undertook the task of processing the Mitrokhin Archive, Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the original three founding members of the FSLN had been recruited by the KGB in 1959 while on a trip to Moscow.

Although the group purported to represent " the autonomous working class ", when the police arrested nine suspected members of the group, only one, ( Jake Prescott, who was arrested in Notting Hill ) came from the working class ; the other eight, four men and four women ( arrested together in Stoke Newington ) were middle-class student drop-outs from the universities of Cambridge and Essex.

He told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built — one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester.