National Geographic : 1936 Sep
WHERE THE WINDING CAM MIRRORS CAMBRIDGE SPIRES © National Geographic Society Finlay Photograph by Walter M. Edwards FOUNDED BY HENRY VIII, TRINITY IS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY'S LARGEST COLLEGE Among its famous sons was Sir Isaac Newton, who had an observatory atop the Great Gate (above). To the left of the portal roomed Thackeray and Macaulay. Like Oxford, Cambridge consists of about a score of colleges. Two are for women. For more than seven centuries this university, 50 miles north of London, has been a center of learning. The undergraduate near the geranium-bordered fountain, in Trinity's Great Court, wears the blazer of the Corpus Christi College rowing crew.