Word: town-gown
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State Sen. Francis X. McCann has charged members of the University Faculty with attacking him unjustly and harming "town-gown" relations during the recent election campaign...
...come as a surprise to find that participation in the annual spring riot carries the same penalty as cheating on an exam. It does, and one principle to remember when contemplating an expedition into crime is that the College is pretty sensitive about its position in the Cambridge community. Town-gown relations are hardly as strained as those between Yale and New Haven, yet there is a definite residual feeling of anti Harvardism in some sections of Cambridge. (Translation: Don't go into the Cambridge Common at night unless fully armed and accompanied by at least two bodyguards.) The Cambridge...
Because of the town-gown situation, when capture becomes inevitable in the midst of a riot it is better to throw oneself into the hands of a University policeman rather than end up under arrest by a member of the regular Cambridge force. University cops are more soft-hearted, and the publicity attendant on a night spent in the Cambridge jail tends to complicate many an otherwise minor offense...
...hopes, after Tammany's defeat, that the Mayor will prove able to foster that political renaissance the city so desperately needs; but it will not be matched upstate for a while. The present struggle will be just another chapter in the long history of New York state's troubled "town-gown" relationships...
...Forward." Cambridge was started in the early 13th century when some Oxford scholars fled their violent town-gown riots and settled in the fens 53 miles north of London. Beginning in 1284 with Peterhouse, now the smallest college (240 undergraduates), Cambridge has grown to 21 colleges-including rich, intellectual Kings, athletic Jesus and Emmanuel, social (and biggest: more than 800) Trinity, plus Girton and Newnham for the 666 women undergraduates that Cantabs complain...