Word: cantabrigoxonian
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Epistle to a Cantabrigoxonian...
...difficult and fine distinctions drawn between Oxford and Cambridge by Norman St. John-Stevas [TIME, Sept. 24] are for the most part accurate . . . However, I suspect that the good Cantabrigoxonian had little to do with English letters or natural science while rusticating or ruminating at either place, for he would not have said that Oxford has the edge in poetry, nor would he have failed to recognize the distinction of Cambridge in the field of science. Can Oxford possibly match Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge . . . or Bacon, Harvey, Darwin...
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