Note 379 — Chapter IV · COLLEGIATE AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY
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In the time of Caius the number of students was 1783 (see p. 217 n.).
A.D. 1573.
Trinity held 359 of these, John’s 271, Christ’s 157, King’s 140, Clare 129, Queens’ 122. Magdalene and S. Catherine’s were the smallest with 49 and 32 respectively. The remaining 6 colleges held between 62 and 96 students each, except Jesus which had a population of 118.
A.D. 1672.
A hundred years after Caius the numbers were 2522. 3000 is about the maximum at either university since the xiii c. At Cambridge the undergraduate population at the present date (October 1906) exceeds 3200, with over 350 resident bachelors, and about 650 M.A.’s and doctors, 400 of whom are fellows.
Cf. with the figures given on p. 206. A man may keep his name on the boards of his college by a payment varying from £2 to £4 a year. The number of men “on the boards” of the university includes all those on the boards of their colleges and has grown in 150 years from 1500 (in 1748) to 13,819 in 1906-7.