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* CORPSE. 440 CORPUSCULAR THEORY OF LIGHT. suit the authorities referred to under Sale {of ■personal propcrli/) ; BUKIAL, etc. CORPS LEGISLATIF, kor' la'zhS'sli'tM' (Fr., legishitive body). The name of the Lower House of the French national legislature from 1S52 to 1870. The number of members was 251, elected by universal suffrage for a term of six ' years. They were largely the creatures of Napo- leon III. Consult the histories of the period by Granier de Cassagnae. Taxile Delord, Beaumont- Vassv, and De la Gorce. See France: Napoleon III. ' CORPS (kor) OP ARTILLERY. See Army Organization; Artillery Corps; and United States, section on Army. CORPS OF ENGINEERS, See Engineer- ing, Military: .hmy i!i;. ization ; and United States, section on Armi/. COR'PUS CATHOL'ICO'RUM:, and COR- PUS E'VANGEL'ICO'RUM (Lat., body of Catholics, and body of Evangelicals). The names given in Germany after the Peace of Westphalia I q.v. ) to the Roman Catholic and Protestant divisions of the Empire respectively. The Elector of Mainz was at the head of the former as presi- dent. It generally held its meetings in a convent of that city in which the Diet happened to meet. The elector of Saxony was at the head of the latter. When the Electoral House of Saxony be- came Roman Catholic, the control was given to the Privy Council, which was a Protestant body. Both were extinguished by the dissolution of the German Empire in 1800. CORPUS CHRIS'TI (Lat., body of Christ). An important festival of the Roman Catholic Church, in honor of the sacrament of the Eucharist. It was instituted in 1204 by Urban TV., partly in consequence of the vision of a Flemish nun named .Juliana, and partly be- cause the anniversarj' of the sacrament's in- stitution fell at the most solemn and mournful time of the Christian year, when services of a festal character were impossible. It was assigned to the Thursday after Trinity Sun- day, and this day is still observed in most parts of Continental Europe by magnificent processions through streets decked with flowers and green boughs. In Vienna the Emperor of Austria w'alks every year immediately before the Arch- bishop carrv'ing the Host. The office of Corpus Ghristi, composed by Saint Thomas Aquinas, is one of the most beautiful in the breviary. CORPUS CHRISTI. a city and county-seat of Nueces County. Tex., 178 miles south by east of Austin: on Corpus Christi Bay, and on the Mexican National and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroads (Map: Texas, F 0). It is the centre of a market-gardening section, has a canning factory, and exports fish and oysters. There is a good harbor, attracting considerable coasting trade. Settled in 1840. Corpus Christi was incorporated in 1870, and is governed under the charter of that date by a mayor, elected every two venrs, and a city council. Population, in 1890. 4.'',87: in 1900, 4703. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE (Cam- bridge). In l.So2 the two guilds of Corpus Christi and Saint INIary in the town of Cam- bridge united to foimd a hall or college for edu- cating clergy to fill the places of those carried away by the recent visitation of the black death. The master and two fellows of this new founda- tion sened as chaplains of the guild, ami officiat- ed also in Saint Benet's Churcli. at which the members of the fellowship of Corpus Christi worshiped, and which was impropriated to the college. For this reason, the college was earlier known as Saint Benet's. In the sixteenth cen- tury the patronage of Sir Nicholas Bacon, who was a member and a benefactor of the college, together with the mastership of Archbisho]) Par- ker, brought the foundation nuich profit and honor. In particular, the unrivaled collection of manuscripts, collected by the latter at the disso- lution of the monasteries and bequeathed to the college, are among its chief treasures. Besides this and the Lewis collection of printed books, the college owns the most interesting collection of plate in the iniiversity. Christopher Marlowe and .John Fletcher were members of Corpus Christi, as was Archbishop Tenison. The build- ings are of much interest, including, as they do, the earliest closed quadrangle in the university, standing almost unaltered since its erection in the fourteenth century. The college consists of a master, twelve fellows, and twentj'-six schol- ars, besides umlcrgraduates. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE (O.xford). One of the smaller colleges in the university. It was the first of the Renaissance foundations, and its establishment marks an epoch in the intellect- ual history of the university. It was founded in 1510 by Richard Fox, Bishop of Yinchester, and Lord Privy Seal, the principal Secretary of State and chief counselor and diplomat of Henn' VII., partly at the suggestion and cost of (Mdham, Bishop of Exeter. In Corpus Christi College we find the first noteworthy attempt to depart from the older educational tradition of the university, in the establisliment of an en- dowed chair of Greek, the first in Oxford, and in ihrowing open the professorial lectures to all members of the university. The honor of found- ing the professorial system Fox shares with Bishop Waynflete and Margaret of Richmond, whose executor he was. The statutes of his foiuidation contain the most stringent rules for life and work, quaintly ANorded in the form of an allegory of a hive of bees. These, with the liberal provisions for the study of Latin and Greek, and humanistic studies in general, called forth the high praise of Erasnnis. Though his prediction of the future preeminence of the col- lege in the university has not been fulfilled. Cor- pus Christi has always maintained an excellent reputation for scholarship. It has counted among its members. John Keble. Thomas Arnold, •the judicious Hooker,' liis patron Bishop Jew- ell. Nicholas I'dall, the author of the first Eng- lish comedy, and. for a very lirief period, Ogle- thorpe, the founder of Georgia. Chief Justice Coleridge, and Thomas Day, author of tiandford and Mcrfon. The buildings of the college, though of several periods, are among the most liarmoni- ous in Oxford, and in this, as in its size, charac- ter, and standing, it has been aptly reckoned among the tliree typical colleges of the university. Its statutes were revised in 1881, and the new provisions are not as yet fully carried out. It consists on its present foundation of a president, thii'teen ordinary and two professorial fellows, twenty-eight scholars, and seven exhibitioners, besides undergraduates. CORPUS'CULAR THEORY OF LIGHT. See Light.