Excerpt from In Praise of Cambridge: An Anthology in Prose and Verse Cambridge is one of the best abused and best loved places in England. When I began to collect pieces for this anthology I quickly perceived that it would be impossible to conform literally to my pre-ordained title on pain of excluding many Of the most famous and nearly all the most amusing things that have been written about us. This was a relief in a way; for undiluted eulogy is monotonous at the best, and the ordinary run of enthusiastic writing about academic scenes becomes, when taken in large quantities, positively nauseating. I therefore abandoned all attempt to make this collection uniformly rose-coloured, and I hope that the inconsistency will be forgiven for the sake Of the resulting advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.