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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows (however, counting only the student body but not Fellows, Trinity has somewhat fewer students than Homerton College). Trinity considers itself to be "a world-leading academic institution with an outstanding record of education, learning and research". Like its sister college, Christ Church, Oxford, it was traditionally considered the most aristocratic of the Cambridge colleges - and it has generally been the academic institution of choice of the Royal Family (King Edward VII, King George VI, Prince Henry of Gloucester, Prince William of Gloucester and Edinburgh and Prince Charles were all undergraduates). The Push Guide to Which University (2005) called it "arguably the grandest Cambridge college" and it has been called "the most magnificent collegiate institution in England". Like Christ Church, the college has also been associated with Westminster School since the school's refoundation in 1560. The Master remains to this day an ex officio member of the school's governing body. The proportion of state school to private school pupils at Trinity is roughly 2:3, though in 2006 it had the lowest state school intake (39%) of any college. On a rolling three-year average Trinity has admitted a smaller proportion of state school pupils (42%) than any other Oxbridge college. It first admitted women graduate students in 1976 and women undergraduates in 1978; and appointed its first female fellow in 1977. Trinity has a world-renowned academic tradition, with members having won 32 Nobel Prizes (of the 87 Nobel Prizes awarded to members of Cambridge University), four Fields Medals (mathematics), one Abel Prize (mathematics) and two Templeton Prizes (religion). It had the highest proportion of students gaining Firsts in their exams of any college in 2008. Trinity has many notable alumni (it has educated six British prime ministers and several heads of other nations) - but its most distinguished include Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, George VI and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Trinity has many college societies. Its rowing club is the First and Third Trinity Boat Club. Trinity's May Ball, named after the Boat Club, is one of the largest of Cambridge's May Balls. Trinity also has the oldest mathematical university society in the United Kingdom, the Trinity Mathematical Society. The first formalised version of the rules of football, known as the Cambridge Rules, was drawn up by Cambridge student representatives of leading boarding schools at Trinity College in 1848. |
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 04b. BALULALOW O my deare hert, young Jesu sweit [sweet], Prepare thy creddil in my spreit [spirit], And I sall [shall] rock thee to my hert, And never mair [more] from thee depart. But I sall praise thee evermoir [evermore] With sanges [songs] sweit unto thy gloir [glory]; The knees of my hert sall I bow, And sing that richt [right] Balulalow. Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eL4fhwhq9KE/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 03. THERE IS NO ROSE There is no rose of such vertu [virtue] As is the rose that bare Jesu. Alleluia, alleluia. For in this rose conteinèd [contained] was Heaven and earth in litel space, Res miranda, res miranda [marvellous things]. By that rose we may well see There be one God in persons three, Pares forma, pares forma [equal form], The angels sungen the shepherds to: Gloria in excelsis, Gloria in excelsis Deo. Gaudeamus, gaudeamus [Let us rejoice]. Leave we all this werldly [worldly] mirth, And follow we this joyful birth. Transeamus, transeamus, transeamus [Let us pass over]. Alleluia, res miranda, pares forma, gaudeamus, Transeamus, transeamus, transeamus. Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PX4k0Mf7i8s/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 05. AS DEW IN APRILLE 06. THIS LITTLE BABE *Note: the original composition did not provide a natural break between these two parts, and thus to preserve the original performance, these two parts are presented as one. 05. AS DEW IN APRILLE I sing of a maiden that is makèles [matchless]: King of all kings to her son she ches [chose] He came also stille there his moder [mother] was, As dew in Aprille [April] that falleth on the grass. He came also stille to his moder's bour [bower], As dew in Aprille that falleth on the flour. He came also stille there his moder lay, As dew in Aprille that falleth on the spray. Moder and mayden was never none but she: Well may such a lady Goddes moder be. 06. THIS LITTLE BABE This little Babe so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan's fold; All hell doth at his presence quake, Though he himself for cold do shake; For in this weak unarmed wise the gates of hell he will surprise. With tears he fights and wins the field, His naked breast stands for a shield; His battering shot are babish cries, His arrows looks of weeping eyes, His martial ensigns Cold and Need, And feeble Flesh his warrior's steed. His camp is pitched in a stall, His bulwark but a broken wall; The crib his trench, haystalks his stakes; Of shepherds he his muster makes; And thus, as sure his foe to <b>...</b>](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_iDD7wqtwmM/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 04a. THAT YONGE CHILD That yongë [young] child when it gan [began to] weep With song she lulled him asleep: That was so sweet a melody It passèd alle minstrelsy. The nightingalë sang also: Her song is hoarse and nought thereto: Whoso [Whoever] attendeth to her song And leaveth the first then doth he wrong. Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S-P4fBOsD4I/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 10. DEO GRACIAS Deo gracias! [Give thanks to God!] Adam lay ibounden [bound up], Bounden [bound] in a bond; Four thousand winter Thought he not to [too] long. Deo gracias! And all was for an appil [apple], An appil that he tok [took], As clerkes finden Written in their book. Deo gracias! Ne had the appil take ben, The appil take ben, Ne hadde never our lady A ben hevene quene. Blessed be the time That appil take was. Therefore we moun [may] singen: Deo gracias! Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i7kRoqAsxQ4/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 09. SPRING CAROL Note: Yes, I'm aware that I stuffed up the naming of this video. Pleasure it is To hear iwis [certainly], The Birdes sing, The deer in the dale, The sheep in the vale, the corn springing. God's purveyance For sustenance, It is for man. Then we always To give him praise, And thank him than. Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OshRvrVBaWE/0.jpg)
![Benjamin Britten's A CEREMONY OF CAROLS Opus 28, for 3-part treble chorus and harp Sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Harp: Frances Kelly Conductor: Richard Marlow 1997 08. IN FREEZING NIGHT Behold, a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies. Alas, a piteous sight! The inns are full; no man will yield This little pilgrim bed. But forced he is with silly beasts In crib to shroud his head. This stable is a Prince's court, This crib his chair of State; The beasts are parcel of his pomp, the wooden dish his plate. The persons in that poor attire His royal liveries wear; The Prince himself is come from heaven; This pomp is prized there. With joy approach, O Christian wight [being], Do homage to thy King, And highly praise his humble pomp, Which he from Heaven doth bring. Sources: everything2.com www.californiaboyschoir.org](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C-kxRUYVjhQ/0.jpg)
