The Student's Guide is written for the benefit not of actual students only, but of all persons who may contemplate entering the University of Cambridge; and of all, whether parents, guardians, tutors or schoolmasters, who may be interested in or responsible for such persons.

There will be found in this Volume,

First, much important information about the usages and expenses of University life, which has not before been printed, and which the student has hitherto partly received orally from the Tutor of his College, partly acquired for himself by his own experience and mistakes ;

Secondly, a series of articles on the Studies and Examinations of the University, written with the authority either of Professors or of men who have themselves recently conducted the Examinations of which they write, and with the practical knowledge of men who have mastered for themselves as Students, and in many cases also for others as Private Tutors, the art of winning high honours ;

Lastly, an account of the system of Middle Class Examination recently established, and of the facilities which the University offers to candidates for Indian Appointments.

As each writer is responsible and alone responsible for his own contribution, it has not been thought necessary that all the articles should be exactly consistent with each other in matters of opinion.