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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JABBERWOCKY | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

...concert is under the auspices of the Cantabrigian Club and the Cambridge Welfare Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROLAND HAYES, FAMED NEGRO TENOR, WILL SING IN SANDERS | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCAL GEOLOGY | 2/23/1924 | See Source »

Uncs., Occs., Specs., Ad Libs!--not to mention S L.As, Sp. Eds., section men, and all others who battle the high Cs of a Cantabrigian education--oyez! One speaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR YELLOW PERIL | 9/26/1922 | See Source »

...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/27/1921 | See Source »

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