Darwin....................
Christ's College is a
constituent college of the
University of Cambridge, officially comprising the Master and Fellows of the College as well as about 600 students.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] The student body divides into roughly 430
undergraduates and 170
postgraduates. The college was founded by
Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1505, its charter granted on 1 May, and was the twelfth of the current colleges to be founded in its current form, though it had been previously founded as God's House in 1437.
This neglect of medical studies annoyed his father, who shrewdly sent him to
Christ's College, Cambridge, for a
Bachelor of Arts degree as the first step towards becoming an Anglican
parson. As Darwin was unqualified for the
Tripos, he joined the
ordinary degree course in January 1828.[SUP]
[24][/SUP] He preferred
riding and
shooting to studying. His cousin
William Darwin Fox introduced him to the popular craze for
beetle collecting; Darwin pursued this zealously, getting some of his finds published in
Stevens' Illustrations of British entomology. He became a close friend and follower of botany professor
John Stevens Henslow and met other leading naturalists who saw scientific work as religious
natural theology, becoming known to these
dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near, Darwin focused on his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of
William Paley's
Evidences of Christianity.[SUP]
[25][/SUP] In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin did well, coming tenth out of 178 candidates for the
ordinary degree.[SUP]
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