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Lesson 12
The first photo shows one of the buildings at Trinity
College which is part of the University of Cambridge.
As you can see it is a rather splendid building and I was
a attending a garden party there last summer. The
University of Cambridge has many similar colleges and
this is referred to as a collegiate institution.
By this we mean the university is made up of several
colleges which are independent of each other. There
are very few universities in Britain that are collegiate.
The oldest college in the University of Cambridge is
800 years old and I think the newest college is
probably about 40 years old.
The second photograph shows people in a punt on the
River Cam, this river flows through the centre of
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