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Word: oppidani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...gowns and hoods. Then, as the bells of St. Martin's and St. Mary's tolled, the berobed host marched to the university's Sheldonian Theater. There, Vice Chancellor Alic Halford Smith made Mayor W. R. Gowers (a Cambridge man) a doctor of civil law. "Salvete Oppidani!" cried the university's Public Orator. "Salvete Academid!" Welcome town, welcome gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Whom the Bells Tolled | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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