Word: cantabrigians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This morning the Vagabond is sick unto death of culture. The Cantabrigian mists, swirling their gyral shapes about the familiar tower, serve as an ethereal transport for his soul, and carry it to far climes. There, the allusions of Professor Babbitt forgotten, the Vagabond recalls an author he once read, a febrile man, Edger Rice Burroughs by name. As the memory returns, he hears the scream of a gorilla, charmingly uncultured. Then, all around him, swarming from the trees, comes a clan of the great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars...
...been said that these students are dudes, toughs, and gladiators. This situation may exist in the Cantabrigian institution, but the number does not dictate student sentiment. The moral corruption and extravagance rests almost solely in a limited class. It is in this group only that little study, fast life and immoral actions persist...
Oxonian & Cantabrigian readers may be annoyed at his pretended assumption that he finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...
...dual meet with Oxford this year Cambridge was an 8-3 victor. Times and distances on this occasion were not remarkable. Denison, cantabrigian three-miler, was clocked at only 15 minutes 7 8-5 seconds, while in a race on Saturday to determine the Harvard three-mile squad, Foote finished in 15 minutes and 3 seconds, followed by Fox in 15 minutes and 6 seconds, and Murphy ten seconds slower. Maybe and Price, of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, will partner with Denison...
June weather. Soon his proteges would be leaving the Cantabrigian shores for Home. A wave of sadness engulfed the Vagabond. He could see the shining faces of his school children on vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...