Word: cantabrigians
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...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...
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...