Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flattering unction to which no man nor society of men would care to be indebted. For many a year Cambridge has sneered at the vagueness of the Oxford mind, and Oxford at the petty particularity of the Cambridge mind: there must be learned men in the Universities of London, Birmingham and other great towns who could pit the two fairly against each other and declare a just result. English literature, of course, would not be the only match. There are many subjects in the curricula. Cambridge would expect to win the mathematics and the principal events in all sorts...
...revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will be, like cricket, football, rackets, and rowing, a means of scoring off the rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer be despised; they will be admired. On the day when the London newsboys are heard shouting "Oriental Languages "Result!" or "Natural Philosophy Winners!" a new era will have begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university...
...Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors in the sentimental graduation milieu, immediately upon the presentation of the last diploma let their thoughts wander New London-ward and shouts and prayers for victory supersede solemn rumination upon the joys and sorrows of graduation...
...clock--Harvard - Yale boat races at New London, Conn...
Copies will be on sale Thursday both in Cambridge and New London...