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Word: capua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strange if there was not. The almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life at Harvard. | 3/9/1889 | See Source »

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