His interest in the literature of the people is avouched also by a collection of their rhymed proverbs which he made.
Vices of style were, however, to become all too prominent and general in Spanish literature of the seventeenth century and to pervade verse and prose alike.
The literature of Spain has been greatly enriched by the modern Renaissance of the Catalan literature.
Cambridge is a member of the Russell Group, a network of large, research-led British universities; the Coimbra Group, an association of leading European universities; the LERU (League of European Research Universities), and the IARU (International Alliance of Research Universities).
The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, which taught the world’s first computing course in 1953, is housed in a building partly funded by Gates and named after his grandfather, William Gates.
After the founding of Harvard College in 1636 at Newtowne, Massachusetts, the town adopted the new name of “Cambridge†in 1638 to promote its reputation as an academic centre.