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Apples & Atoms. Though Oxford and Cambridge are twin peaks of English education, Americans are more aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...resemble the "young buck" Byron, who kept a bear in his rooms at Trinity (dogs were barred). He is generally a public school product on scholarship; traditionalists find him distressingly "professional," the sort of lad who runs an ad agency or nightclub on the side. But today's Cantab still savors yesterday's delights, even to the services of a "gyp," who wakes him in the morning, makes his bed and calls...
Such leavening complements the Cantab's only formal assignment: reading on his own for three years in one field as preparation for his tripos-the grueling exams after his second and third years that are named after the three-legged stools on which exam takers once sat. Even this one-field approach is less specialized than it sounds. The reading is prodigious; more than 200 books a year is average. "Natural sciences'' run from anatomy to zoology, not just physics or chemistry alone. "History" includes economics, government and sociology. "English" involves intimacy with Early Irish, Early Welsh...
Triangle chorus line favorite, David B. Jones offered the services of his Black Notes quartet during a bus cavalcade into the Empire City. He praised Crimson coach Fox Jordan for donating the Cantab team buses...
...fill of Cantab larks...