Word: raze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying that the time has come to raze both Oxford and Cambridge to the ground. Shaw has said a great many foolish things in the past, but here is a case where I find myself in hearty agreement with his views. The fashion which Princeton, in common with many large eastern universities, has set in recent years of sending over large hordes of students, immediately after graduation, either to Oxford or Cambridge, for the purpose of acquiring an extra coat of varnish whereby to dazzle the yokels back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems...