This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the
twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete
text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university
politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account
of the controversies which gave rise to it. Cambridge during this
period was being subjected to pressure for reform from within and
outside the University, forcing it to radical social and academic
change, above all by extending and altering the curriculum and by
admitting women. All these matters, many of which remain in debate
at the beginning of the twenty-first century in Cambridge and in
the wider academic community, provoked fierce debates and provided
a rich context for Cornford's pamphlet. The book is illustrated
with a selection of contemporary photographs and portraits.
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