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16 Apr 2020: Gerard Manley Hopkins poem God’s Grandeur Hopkins poem is not just another lament for the wounds we have inflicted on our world. As a Christian priest, a Jesuit, he sees the damage we have done as our failure to “Reck God’s rod”, and calls

9 Dec 2020: The College is sorry to announce the death of Graham Howes (1938-2020), alumnus and Emeritus Fellow, on 8 December. Graham was born and brought up in Norfolk, and was always proud of his Norfolk antecedents. After national service in military

1 Apr 2020: Many of us who are stuck at home have turned our thoughts to our gardens. I have been at the bottom of my own garden over the weekend. It’s amazing what you can achieve in a few hours with determination and a flame thrower! Well, actually just a

15 Sep 2020: The latest medieval manuscript at Trinity Hall to be digitised is a twelfth century copy of Josephus’ Historiae Antiquitatis Judaice (The Antiquities of the Jews), Ms. 4. The Latin translations of Josephus were incredibly popular throughout the

10 Sep 2020: alumni across the matriculation years to meet old friends, make new ones and to maintain.

24 Jun 2020: During this period of lockdown, I have often used the intervals of time at the weekend to watch films on Amazon Prime. I confess that my favourite genre is romantic comedy, as I find its light-heartedness relaxes me the most. Admittedly the regular

24 Apr 2020: Dr John Walshe matriculated at Trinity Hall in 1939 to study Medicine & Medical Sciences. On the 24 April he celebrates his 100th birthday. Dr Walshe discovered an effective treatment for Wilson’s disease, otherwise known as hepatolenticular

7 Jul 2020: This knowledge reflects a period of change at the University of Cambridge which saw a move away from its original purpose to train clerics in canon law, to providing the new

5 Nov 2020: Invest in a new pot (about 20% bigger than the old one) and some fresh compost. ... Pop out your plant and gently loosen its root ball. Sit it on the new compost making sure that its compost surface is about 2 or 3cm from the top of

26 Aug 2020: The following University webpage summarises the present situation: www.cam.ac.uk/coronavirus/news/statement-on-undergraduate-admissions-18-august-2020. ... As things stand, 70% of our new intake will come from the maintained sector (an increase from 67%

12 Apr 2020: Terry Waite CBE, the humanitarian and author, spent 1,763 days in captivity in the Lebanon, the first four years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Following his release in 1991 he was elected a Fellow-Commoner of Trinity Hall, where he

9 Sep 2020: It has also proven impossible to recruit new committee members in the COVID-19 climate. ... I would like the legal issue to be resolved before handing over to a new president – another reason for proposing no changes to the committee in this difficult

6 Jan 2020: There is in the Old Library of Trinity Hall a manuscript (Trinity Hall, Ms. 48) dating from the eighteenth century which has advice about studying law.  Books about how to study law are a well-established feature of modern legal educational

3 Dec 2020: As part of a community effort to make sure people don’t go hungry in Cambridge, the Trinity Hall kitchens provided food for a local food bank based at Cambridge Regional College in King’s Hedges.

4 May 2020: This time last year we would not have thought that attending religious services in front of a screen would be commonplace. Three Trinity Hall contemporaries from 1967 tell us of their experience: “Little did we realise on Sunday 15 March 2020 that

16 Apr 2020: In Lent term, the kitchen introduced carbon footprint labels in the cafeteria that indicate the greenhouse gas emissions per 100g for each of the main course dishes prepared by the kitchen. The informative labels help the catering team and visitors

11 Dec 2020: Food is an important part of Christmas festivities and many of our present day gastronomic traditions have their origins in centuries old recipes. These recipes were shared by word-of-mouth or passed down in private notes or journals, but from the

12 May 2020: After the Wall was down, this empty area running along 140 km —87 miles— became home to modern buildings trying to peacefully connect and reunite, to create a new common future.

27 Feb 2020: Trinity Hall welcomes students of any faith or none, and Cambridge is a wonderful place to explore new ideas, philosophies and religions, either intellectually or personally. ... Living on-site means that your lectures and other colleges aren’t too far

29 Jun 2020: On Saturday 27 June Trinity Hall held an online celebration for the graduands of 2020. The year group joined us on LinkHall, our online community platform, from midday for a series of videos, messages from Fellows, staff and alumni, and a virtual

30 Apr 2020: Invictus, by William Ernest Henley Rumoured to have been one of the late Nelson Mandela’s favourites, Invictus by William Ernest Henley, is one of the few poems in my life that continues to speak, especially in times of crisis. It is the best

5 Nov 2020: Planning these days is highly regulated and can seem to take a long time, especially in Cambridge where the council and colleges work closely together to ensure new buildings are in

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30 Nov 2020: In 2017, during our THwomen40 anniversary of women event, we unveiled a new portrait of Drs Raban and Thorne (main image). ... He and Henry Fawcett fought to secure the College’s new statutes of 1859, which allowed fellows to marry.

30 Nov 2020: 3. THBC’s new set of oars.4. Students on our annual BaNES (Bath and North East Somerset). ... 5. Detail of the Pavilion clock at Wychfield Site.6. THBC’s new, world-class rowing machines.7.

12 Nov 2020: I am very grateful that our new Bursar, Tim Harvey-Samuel, has taken the opportunity to revise and communicate our strategy.

20 May 2020: Apart from the general anxiety that came with the sudden and rapid change in the operations of the University as a result of the pandemic, mine was worsened for two reasons. Firstly, I am visually impaired and the lockdown meant that I was going to

17 Oct 2020: When Coronavirus took hold across the country she and her colleagues faced a new challenge. ... Jo usually works on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. She operates a drop in service at the Wychfield Site in New Build Flat D01, but students can also contact

23 Apr 2020: Mia Hansen-Løve’s film Things to Come (L’Avenir, 2016) depicts a woman at a time of personal crisis: her husband has unexpectedly left her, her publisher has dropped the book series she edits, and caring for her elderly mother is becoming an

12 Nov 2020: Written by:. Kathryn Martin-Chambers. Posted:. 12 Nov 2020. He leads a research program at the interface of chemistry and biology focusing on the development of new reactions for the construction ... The award cites Dr Bernardes’ ground-breaking

19 May 2020: Highs and lows with Elgar When I went up to the Hall in 1967 to read Modern and Mediaeval Languages, I took with me the rather dodgy amplifier for an electric guitar which I had never learned to play and a painted plywood box of my own manufacture

13 Apr 2020: Every Monday, the Trinity Hall YouTube channel shares a new performance from a member of our community.

7 May 2020: Spiritual Friendship is a short and unsophisticated book, written a century before the rediscovery of Greek philosophy injected new philosophical life into the bloodstream of Medieval Catholicism. ... In the New Testament letters of John, Aelred read

17 Jul 2020: Trinity Hall’s first virtual Open Day for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) applicants on was co-organised by the Admissions Office and current students, led by BME Officer, Maro Okiti. More than 120 people attended the virtual Open Day on Friday 26

27 Apr 2020: 5Two new portraits. 6–7Affable Bears. 8–15FEATURE: Meet the athletes. 16–17News in brief. ... Although I grew up with a physical disability, I have never let that stop me from trying new things.

26 May 2020: Somewhere, not in the known unknown but in the unknown unknown, a decisive event has taken place, a new beginning with direct consequences for our immediate environment.

25 Sep 2020: Alumnus Billy Boyle (1997) is a serial inventor, entrepreneur and a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medallist. At Cambridge, he co-founded Owlstone Nanotech, marketing a programmable microchip sensor with applications ranging from toxic gas

31 May 2020: Some of the most fascinating material uncovered recently has been generated by the relatively new undergraduate optional paper the ‘Material Renaissance’, which explores all kinds of intersections between literature and material

5 May 2020: Professor Jack Thorne (2004) has become the youngest living member of the Royal Society, aged 32. He has been recognised for multiple breakthroughs in diverse areas of algebraic number theory. Professor Thorne studied Mathematics at Trinity Hall

22 May 2020: www.cam.ac.uk/coronavirus/news/update-from-the-senior-pro-vice-chancellor-education-regarding-the-academic-year-2020-21.

24 Sep 2020: September update The College’s Fellows, staff and JCR and MCR Committees have been working hard to ensure time spent in College is as Covid-secure and comfortable as possible. Our priority remains promoting the safety, wellbeing and health of

13 Nov 2020: The Harding’s vision is to encourage new donors to collegiate Cambridge and support students in greatest need across the University.

2 Nov 2020: FEATURE. RETURN TO CONTENTS. 12. NEWS IN BRIEF. Royal Society’s youngest member. ... NEWS IN BRIEF. August 2019 saw the arrival of our brand new online alumni platform, LinkHall.

3 Jun 2020: Announcing the social entrepreneurs shortlisted for the 2020 Cambridge Social Innovation Prize, awarded by Trinity Hall and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge From fighting loneliness on your morning jog, to

6 Nov 2020: The most vital message that members of academic staff want to put across at this difficult moment of entering a second lockdown is that we want you to take great care of your wellbeing – and that we are here to help and support you.

20 Jul 2020: own leadership capacity so they can meet new challenges head-on. ... from experts at Cambridge Judge Business School, and introductions to new partners, investors and other opportunities.

11 Dec 2020: volatility and some opportunity; see “Balance sheet and endowment performance below” • Helping staff to become comfortable with new Covid-secure working arrangements as. ... Substantial new donations or bequests received during the year are added

27 Jul 2020: What a generous family to give me a new life, whilst they were grieving.”.

7 May 2020: PhD candidate Philipp Verpoort (2016) has been recognised by the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards for his work with Greater Cambridge Citizens’ Assembly on transport. Philipp has worked on a citizens’ assembly project in Cambridge as

8 Dec 2020: Documenting life during lockdown has prompted the Trinity Hall community to produce some beautiful images. From spending life indoors to escaping the confines of their rooms, exploring nature or even fitting in a bit of unicycle-riding, College life