Introducing Hopkins and His Wranglers; The Student Experience, 1820-1860; Cambridge University in Context; Teaching at Cambridge; William Hopkins; Hopkins' Top Wranglers, 1829-1854; The "Cambridge Stamp"; Wranglers at Home: Four Biographies; Universities and Colleges; Wranglers Abroad: Churchmen and Educators in the Colonies; The Growth of a Research Community; Achievements in the Mathematical Sciences; Postscript
Summary
Drawing on accounts of life at Cambridge, this book provides readers a glimpse inside its colleges, and charts the evolution of the curriculum and the slow, often reluctant, reforms that led to Cambridge's dominance of British higher education
