Trinity College
About Trinity College
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table, coming top from 2011 to 2017, and regaining the position in 2024.
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When he moved to Trinity College after he became a famous philosopher, his rooms were completely devoid of furniture. He had no furniture in them. When he left Cambridge, he became an assistant gardener at an Austrian monastery and slept in a potting shed.
from 337: No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle, 2020-09-04 at 00:20:32 · read transcript
Other times Trinity College came up
There was only ever one copy of each one. I've got one here. That this is the guy named Anthony Scattergood, who was a theologian at Trinity College. In his miscellany, he has an erotic poem called On Six Cambridge Mades Bathing Themselves by Queen's College, June 15, 1629, which is quite good. Then immediately after that is a recipe that says, for the eyes, take snails and prick them through the shells with a great pin and they will issue out a fat water.
136: No Such Thing As A Wolf Diving For Clams, 2016-10-22 · listen
I think I've said it quite often. I don't know how to actually say it. I'm going to leave it. Richard Daly is really interesting. He went to Trinity College in Dublin when he was 15. He was a really turbulent student. He used to get into fights all the time. Apparently he fought 16 jewels in the first two years that he was at university.
No Such Thing As The Man-Trap Of Walford, 2022-05-13 · listen
He was in Cambridge. He was practicing in Cambridge, wasn't he? Someone from Trinity College, Cambridge, a senior called Paul Thompson was sentenced to death for this crime. Because it was incredibly serious at the time.
No Such Thing As Elizabeth I's Burnt Umber, 2026-04-02 · listen
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