Word: cantabrigians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Perhaps it is too much to hope that among ten thousand thesis writers at Harvard there may be that Cantabrigian Ed Wynn, that perfect fool who, like another Leacock, will bring nonsense laurels to the American university...
...concert is under the auspices of the Cantabrigian Club and the Cambridge Welfare Union...
...antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...