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...Yale man," the editors are "glad to say," "is a somewhat happy medium between the two extremes of the big three. He is proud of his alma mater's name, but he is not like the weary Cantabridgian, weighed down by the responsibility of belonging to America's Oldest College, and, while he is still one of the just-a-big-boy school, he manages to escape the callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...reputations and even dollars rested on the uncertain outcome. But seated next to our correspondent was a blase young thing, sweetly dressed in red, wearing a fetching red hat, with a red feather protruding from the back of it at an even more fetching angle. However, despite her apparent Cantabridgian sympathies, her eye was not on the game, as she looked curiously from side to side. Her attention was not brought back to the field until a Harvard pass was intercepted, when groans of tortured souls rose all around her. Looking back at the game her face lit up with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/18/1936 | See Source »

...club will sponsor a monster rally in the interest of Boston and Haigis at Cantabridgian Hall Thursday night at 8 o'clock. At this rally the chief speaker will be Robert T. Bushnell, former District Attorney of Middlesex County, one of the foremost orators in the Commonwealth. Other speakers will be Judge Frankland W. L. Miles of the Roxbury Court and Professor Arthur L. Brown of the Boston University Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACON BOOSTERS MEET TO ORGANIZE TONIGHT | 10/3/1934 | See Source »

...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Man In The Street Gives Version of Simo--Japanese Conflict--Wing Kee, Laundry Expert Visions Bombing Raid | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...completely unorthodox as this device may seem, it is not entirely without precedent. There comes to mind the Freshman of a neighboring institution who towards the end of rushing season invited brothers of a prominent fraternity en masse to dinner; and memory still lingers of the Cantabridgian who said "Hello" to Max Keezer first. However, it should be noted in the interest of truth that in both instances nothing ever came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT'S NEWS | 1/7/1931 | See Source »

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