Word: cantabridgian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mayor McNamara welcomed the Cambridge Civic Symphony on the occasion of its debut in Sanders Theatre last night, he voiced the justifiable pride of a Cantabridgian in this important even for the community. As President Pusey, who followed the Mayor, observed, civic symphonies are spreading throughout the country, and Cambridge, as a "center of high civilization" has been long overdue for one of its own. To everyone's relief and pleasure, the orchestra proved in its first concert to be a very fine one, capable of handling major works in an assured and professional fashion...
...prognostications they failed, for the heavily-favored Burke, who had been ill with a stomach ailment since he landed, finished a dead last, and a Cantabridgian named Davison won the quarter-mile...
Their selection brings to seven the number of Americans who have rowed under the Cantabridgian banner. The most recent was former Crimson stroke Lewis B. McCagg '52, who held a berth on the 1954 shell...
...father, a Cambridge policeman all his life, once asked me, 'Why leave Cambridge when anything anyone could possibly ever want is right here?" Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, magna cum laude and senior Phi Beta Kappa, has followed this advice ever since. "I'm a native Cantabridgian, always will be. I was born on Center Street in 1914 and when I married, I finally moved--to the other end of the street...
...continued furor caused by this newspaper in regard to the dearth of social, bisexual entertainment facilities available to the Harvard undergraduate. Much energy, crimition, and literary license has been indulged in to describe the lush grass somewhere and to compare it to the pallid green homeland of the Cantabridgian...