Word: cantabrigians
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...follow through on a very sticky wicket, here is an extension of the delicate differences between the two Ancient & Honourable Universities as observed by an American [and Cantabrigian]. Oxford: Scotch whisky, Parliament, Press & Pulpit, Beautiful men, Boyish women, Refined brilliance, Marry good country girls or Americans. Cambridge: Audit ale, Poetry, Pubs & Privacy, Handsome men, Manly women, Rough genius, Marry lusty city girls or Continentals...
Between 1630 and 1640, some 140 Cantabrigians stepped on to American soil. At the beginning of the decade, John Winthrop arrived and became the first governor of Massachusetts. Three years later came Thomas Hooker, former Dean of Emmanuel College, who eventually trudged off into the wilderness to establish the first settlement in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Cantabrigian Roger Williams was off in the direction of Rhode Island and "a third New England state had been brought to birth by a Cambridge graduate...
...look in Cantabrigian streets to find the sons of the Shamrock and Revolution. For it's in Boston that the people are gathering. Parades, parties, dances, and some good Irish Ale are being offered in the City for all Shamrock wearers...
...expected a fuss. The heads of the various colleges were almost unanimously agreed on the man for the strictly honorary job: wiry, brilliant Arthur William, Baron Tedder, marshal of the R.A.F. and onetime deputy supreme commander of the cross-Channel invasion. The actual voting by the university senate (any Cantabrigian with an M.A. is eligible to vote) should have been, as always, a mere formality...
Nehru usually spoke without notes, ramblingly and frankly. At an Overseas Press Club luncheon, asked if he wished his remarks to stay off the record, he cracked: "How can you be off the record to 500 people?" In his low, Cantabrigian voice, which carried only traces of Asian inflections, he expressed a noncommittal and slightly distant good will to the U.S. India, said Pandit Nehru, does "not wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally...