Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...theological writers. Who does not know the college of Chaucer, called by him "Soler Hall at Cambridge," but now named Clare. This small college, which can boast of but one beautiful court, was once one of the largest in the town. Emanuel was built upon the site of a Dominican monastery, and in the strife between the King and the people became known and marked as a Puritan college. It is of this college, and its companion in the Puritan faith, Sidney Sussex, that Charles I said "They are the nurseries of Puritans." Oliver Cromwell graduated from Sydney Sussex...