“Nowhere can Mathematics be learned as at Cambridge”

Abstract

THESE words are ascribed to Dr. Hopkinson in his speech at the Royal Society on behalf of the medallists; and as they are calculated to sustain a belief which, Heaven knows, is already widely enough prevalent among even tolerably well-informed people in England—the belief, namely, that no one but a Cambridge Wrangler is worth thinking of as a teacher of mathematics—perhaps you will allow me to enter a protest.