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...Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

...hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Age | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

...make over 10,000 crossings daily of much-travelled Massachusetts Avenue plus a slightly smaller number from the Yard into the laboratory area beyond New Lecture Hall, the prevailing paucity of accidents can only be attributed to the marvelous broken-field agility which is early developed in every Cantabridgian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dame Fortune's Darlings | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

Besides the usual barrage from WCOP and the Crimson Network, during this past weekend Bostonian and Cantabridgian music publics were subjected to two concerts which will rival any of the entire season in everything from novelty to richness of performance...

Author: By Charles R. Greenhouse, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

...letter sent to protesting students; curt, concise Timeditors explained the misstatement by quoting an Associated Press report of the move. The Lucesleuths felt the full fury of Cantabridgian scorn, complaining that their mail has swollen with exclamations of the unfortunate absence of any such luxury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Timeditors, Heads Hanging Pass Buck on 'Snack' Hack | 11/19/1942 | See Source »

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