The Cambridge College of Saint John the Evangelist - a brief history

• "Why, if such a room looked out both back and front on to a blank dead wall it would still be a paradise, how much more then when the view is of some quiet grassy court or a cloister or garden ...."
  - The way of all flesh.
  - His room was on D staircase in New Court.

• "I have been out of bed by a quarter past 5 every morning lately and into bed by 10 at night, get a cup of tea by 6 in the morning and read till nine, breakfast and amusement till 10, read from 10 to one, go to Shilleto half past 6 to half past 7 (I don't care about that at all.)
  Well then there is music from 1 to 2 and excercise from 2 to 4 and music from 4 to 5 and dinner at 5; so when I come back from Shilleto I am pretty glad to have done the day's work. Of course drawing goes to the dogs. I am exceedingly well in every respect but my eyes, and they are mending."
  - The family letters of Samuel Butler 1841-1886.
  - The distinguished classical scholar Richard Shilleto taught/supervised Butler.