Word: cantabrigians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richards, a literary critic and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote the first book about modern semantics, The Meaning of Meaning, with Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow Cantabrigian...
TIME is appalled at Cantabrigian Miss Franklin's pronunciation of what...
...painful burden. Two classes, indeed, are sheltered by the university: those livers on the fat of the land, the House masters, and the young, unmarried tutors. But these constitute a small minority. The rest have independence thrust upon them, and are cast out to struggle in the Cantabrigian wilderness...
...attempt to add insult to injury, Cantabrigian garagemen have called in the bilious gargoyles of the local constabulary to force the cars of students off streets; this duty they have accomplished with a maximum of asininity, officiousness, and impoliteness. Their excuse that the fire hazard makes it necessary to do this attains a truly remarkable degree of thinness when it is considered that cars can be parked on the streets all day long without creating any fire hazard. Realistically viewed, these activities of the police amount to nothing more nor less than a racketeering expedition for the benefit...
...justify it, it might be further altered and enlarged so as to fill a real need. In Harvard, because of its size and disjointed nature, some unifying and stabilizing influence is sorely needed, particularly among those students who have not yet located themselves quite firmly enough in the Cantabrigian firmament. By means of such an influence, the value of an education is enhanced for those who are naturally slow starters; incipient mental troubles may be avoided in some cases; and finally, there is added to the University a source of mature counsel within easy reach of the undergraduate, which...