Chapter 515 - 245 Opening Ceremony (5.8K)_2

According to Mr. Thomson.

The United Kingdom is preparing to make significant moves in the Far East, therefore there has been an expansion of enrollment for incoming students, aiming to cultivate reserve talents.

Actually, the University of Cambridge is doing quite well; the situation at Oxford this year is even more outrageous — it has recruited over 600 new students in one go. (This took place in 1840 and continued to 1850).

Out of the 700 students recruited at the University of Cambridge, the number of graduate students is roughly a little over 220.

Meanwhile, because some colleges haven’t set up graduate courses.

Therefore, after dividing it.

Each college with graduate courses recruited about 25-35 new graduate students.

Trinity College received a moderate number of graduate students, exactly 29.

As for the new undergraduate students, there are more, they got 67.

However, unlike many schools in later generations.

The University of Cambridge’s admissions ceremony is not held uniformly across the school, but is hosted by each college independently — from this, the degree of autonomy of each college is evident, similar to the Loose Jiangsu in later generations.

Thus coincidentally.

Xu Yun and Wheat’s induction ceremony happened to be held in the same classroom.

On this morning, Xu Yun and Wheat woke up early.

"Mr. Luo Feng."

After washing up, Wheat took a suit from his suitcase.

After dressing neatly, he smoothed the wrinkles on the cuffs, looked up and down to check, and said to Xu Yun:

"Does this suit look He Shen?"

Xu Yun touched his chin, appraised for a moment, and nodded:

"Not bad, quite handsome, shouldn’t be a problem to get a girlfriend."

Wheat, a bit shy from the compliment, scratched his already sparse hair and chuckled:

"This is the lawyer’s suit my dad just retired from — originally, I thought I’d use the scholarship advance from the college to tailor a new one."

"But my dad said this suit helped him win many cases, brings good luck, so he gave it to me."

Upon hearing, Xu Yun couldn’t help but imagine a heartwarming scene between father and son, nodding in approval:

"Such a good father... By the way, then what will he wear without a suit?"

Wheat paused, looked at Xu Yun in surprise, and said:

"Who said he can’t wear a suit? He used my scholarship to tailor a new one!"

Xu Yun:

"..."

Something seems off?

Wheat then took out the square-toed leather shoes made for him by Old Wheat and rearranged his hairstyle.

If he didn’t start speaking with that strong Scottish accent, he looked as attractive as one-seventy-third of a Reader lord.

Compared to Wheat’s seriousness, Xu Yun was much simpler:

Whatever clothes he wore when time-traveling, that’s how he’s dressed now.

After tidying up.

Xu Yun and Wheat left the dormitory together.

"perfomie tiered classroom..."

Xu Yun and Wheat were holding the essential Trinity College Bible in one hand, and following the classroom information given by Aveline in the other.

With the memory from their exchange year to guide them, the two quickly found this tiered classroom located on Hamir Avenue.

This perfomie tiered classroom at Trinity College ranks highly across the entire University of Cambridge, accommodating approximately 500 people.

In his previous life, Xu Yun had taken several classes in the perfomie classroom, which was fully equipped with modern devices, very advanced, even featuring VR, AR equipment, and a ground-lifting platform.

Thus, Xu Yun always thought this classroom was built in the recent era, but to his surprise, it had already existed in 1850.

As Xu Yun and Wheat entered the classroom, there were four Student Union cadres with armbands outside the door checking student cards.

The four cadres, two men and two women, each with different college insignias on their chests, Xu Yun recognized only two:

The tallest boy wore the Trinity College emblem, which undoubtedly he couldn’t forget from his own college.

The girl wore the Peter College emblem.

Xu Yun recognized this emblem primarily because of its high recognition:

It’s a shield icon with a completely red background, surrounded by eight crowns inside, with five yellow vertical strips in the middle, add a cannon, and it’s almost like Arsenal’s team emblem.

As for the remaining two, Xu Yun wasn’t really sure, his understanding of emblems was indeed limited.

Upon reaching them.

Wheat and Xu Yun obediently handed over their student cards.

The tall boy from Trinity College took the student cards, looked at the roster for a few moments, then raised his eyebrows:

"James Clerk Maxwell, are you the reduced tuition student brought back by Mr. Thomson?"

Wheat nodded, and proactively extended his hand:

"Hello senior, I am Maxwell."

The tall boy’s gaze lingered on Wheat’s outstretched hand for a few seconds, and finally shook his hand:

"Frederic Agar Ellis, third-year graduate student in the Mathematics Department at Trinity College, perhaps we’ll meet again."

Then he glanced at Xu Yun, a trace of inexplicable expression in his eyes, said:

"You two can enter the classroom, seats should not exceed the front six rows, wish you joy at the University of Cambridge."

Wheat seemed like he wanted to say something.

Xu Yun pulled him aside and slightly bowed to Ellis:

"Please look after us, Senior Ellis."

After speaking, he led Wheat into the classroom.

At this time, the classroom had roughly forty people, who were discussing various matters in small groups.

The professors and college leaders seemed not to have arrived, nor was Stokes seen around, yet the front row seats were already reserved.

Seeing Wheat and Xu Yun enter.

Many instinctively turned their heads to look, wondering if they were handsome guys, beauties, or acquaintances.

Then.....

Swoosh——

Xu Yun immediately felt a large number of gazes landed on him, hearing some faint disdainful snorts.

Xu Yun:

"...."

No way.

The Eastern face was just too eye-catching.

Eastern person + a Scottish blonde boy = back door + reduced tuition student, this formula seemed to have spread throughout the University of Cambridge.

He then pulled Wheat to sit at a relatively back position, planning to wait for the leaders to arrive.

Just as they sat down.

Wheat, seeming like he had held back for a long time, eagerly said to Xu Yun:

"Mr. Luo Feng, how come I feel that Senior Ellis’ attitude... seems a bit odd?"

During these past days.

Wheat, to some extent, was a bit of a celebrity, on his way to the library or dining, he often encountered Cambridge students greatly surprised upon hearing his name.

Some were friendly, some skeptical, and others envious.

In short.

Wheat could clearly judge from their words and expressions whether someone had a good or bad attitude toward him.

Yet, the Ellis they just met left Wheat with an indescribable impression.

Friendly certainly couldn’t be mentioned.

But hostile didn’t seem to be that extreme...

Thinking of that ambiguous smile, Wheat felt a chill at the back of his head.

As if someone placed a cold hand on his neck...

Xu Yun lifted his eyelids and looked at him, withdrew his warm hand from his neck, and said meaningfully:

"What, you haven’t noticed?"

Wheat blinked, a question mark appeared on his face:

"Notice? Notice what?"

Xu Yun nodded towards the entrance with his chin, indicating:

"Mathematics graduate student, third-year status, also mentioned Mr. Thomson, haven’t you realized anything?"

Wheat froze instantly.

This Scottish youth might seem honest but was not entirely slow-witted.

He quickly widened his eyes:

"No way, Mr. Luo Feng, do you mean..."

Xu Yun affirmed with a nod, said:

"Exactly, he must be one of Mr. Thomson’s rivals for the presidency of the Student Union!"

Meanwhile.

The second half of Wheat’s sentence also came vaguely:

"..... You mean Senior Ellis likes Mr. Thomson of the same grade, seeing him go to Ireland to pick me up specially, so he got jealous?"

A moment later.

The two suddenly stared wide-eyed at each other:

"....?"

.......

Note:

I didn’t want to make up names, so I went to check the alumni list of Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1850, ended up spending an hour on the alumni list of Trinity College, University of Oxford...

The easter egg Chapter includes screenshots from the alumni page, I guarantee each person mentioned existed historically, so in light of this seriousness, kindly support with monthly pass.....

This month’s monthly pass is extremely crucial, concerning some aspects of this book’s progress, can’t elaborate too clearly, but much more important compared to previous months....