It is alarming to hear that the foundations of Fellows' Building, in Queens' College Cambridge, have Been so sapped by the action of the river which it overlooks that it may have to be pulled down. It is in" cangeuous to think of any stream so placid, not to say sluggish, as the Cam eroding. its banks as if it were galloping torrent like the Rhone But fearsome racks have appeared the building and although hundreds tons of clay have been dumped in the river to stiffen the bank, it is doubtful whether the building can be saved.
Queens' Is one of the smallest, but among the prettiest colleges of Cam bridge. It Is an old catch to ask how many' Queens there were at Cambridge and how many at Oxford. There were two at Cambridge, First in 1448 Queen' Margaret of Anjou was so much impressed with the splendour of King's College, that she resolved to found a college herself fand got a piece of yround adjoining King's from the Carmelites, 'Then her work was completed by Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV, whose reign, turbulent as its general Impression is, was a great time for the revival of scholarship. Tt was Elizabeth Woodville who gave the name of Queens' to the college. It is Dullt for the most part of red brick (ike St. John's and St, Catherine's) and is not only a perfect example of college architecture, but a model of the 15th century manor house.
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