I was told that, of these, Trinity leads and St.John comes next.
"Trinity has always led in mathematics; it boasts of Newton and Byron among its graduates.

Milton belonged to Christ Church College; the mulberry tree which he planted still flourishes.
"Even to-day, a young scholar of Trinity expressed his regret to me that Milton did not belong to the college in which he himself studied.

He pointed out the rooms occupied by Newton, and showed us 'Newton's Bridge,' 'which will surely fall when a greater man than he walks over it'! "Milton first planned the great poem, 'Paradise Lost,' as a drama, and this manuscript, kept within a glass case, is opened to the page on which the _dramatis personae_ are planned and replanned.

On the opposite page is a part of 'Lycidas,' neatly written and with few corrections.
"The most beautiful of the college buildings is King's Chapel.

A Cambridge man is sure to take you to one of the bridges spanning the wretched little stream called the 'Silver Cam,' that you may see the architectural beauties of this building.
"It is well to attend service in one or the other of the chapels, to see assembled the young men, who are almost all the sons of the nobility or gentry.