Word: cantabrigian
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What will become of the undergraduate clubs? The older ones which sink their roots into the social loam and financial subsoil of the surrounding community, academic Cantabrigian and urbane Bostonese, will no doubt go on much as usual, at least for the present...
...seconds this week just as it has the University team and Coach Hal Jauvrin has staged only abbreviated workouts since Monday, when his charges romped over the Cambridge Latin team. In that game the seconds only outhit their opponents by two singles but they coupled a large number of Cantabrigian errors with an even greater number of walks and came off the field on the long end of a 15 to 0 count...
...Yale Record, like its Cantabrigian counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon, has seen fit to ridicule the plan, and several undergraduates and younger alumni have contributed severe criticism to the columns of The Yale Daily News. The chief danger which they profess to detect is an undesirable "paternalism" which would force youths of varied origins and interests into an unwelcome intimacy, seriously interfere with the freedom of fraternities and other social organizations and possibly restrict the students to a boarding-house existence of prescribed hours of meals, study and sleep. In other words, it is charged that the proposed system, admittedly designed...
...criticism will be heard of the names of the first two Houses. Dunster for Harvard's first president and Lowell for its latest. The names have long been honorably associated with things Cantabrigian. The announcement of the masters-to-be of the third and fourth Houses will also please Harvard men. Robert B. ("Frisky") Merriman '96, and Edward A. Whitney '17, although of different generations, are both members of the faculty who have long taken an advisory part in undergraduate life outside of their professional interests. Boston Herald
...soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang to his work. It is through granite one drills to reach oil, he must have thought, and as good granite as that of Teapot Dome is in the steps of the Park Street Church...