Word: cantabrigian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present number, Lampy offers its own compendium of Cantabrigian notables; a sort of Almanach de Gotha (or de Goats); a miniature Burke's Steerage of Cambridge. The Ruling Classes of the University are there, from the President himself down to the office attendants, and from George Washington Cram to George Washington Terry. No mercy is shown; the Horrible Truth has been divulged. Whispers have run about already that a certain professor was a bit dull, that another loved the truth better than the American revolutionists, and that a certain young lady connected with U9 excelled in personal pulchritude. The facts...
Shades of Emerson and Longfellow! Will the Juggernaut of modern progress have no mercy? Is Cantabrigian conservatism to die without a gasp? Consider the awful consequences of such a vulgar union...
...soul of a college is football....The soul of Cornell has overcome the soul of Harvard, the soul of Princeton the soul of Dartmouth...Saturday, on Princeton sands, President Lowell's undecimal system will set its iron heel. Is the Nassovian or the Cantabrigian soul the mightier? The greatness of colleges is to be tested. The college soul is to be made visible."--New York Times...
...arrived! Promptly at 7.30 o'clock the Senior class to a man will assemble its hosts before Holworthy Hall, seize their festive torches, and if it is possible to elude the Yard policemen, and other Cantabrigian nuisances, proceed to the scenes of Walpurgian revel in the Gage. Everything is in readiness for the annual affair which promises in magnificence and size to rival many of the greatest events the world has ever known...
...Mary Antin Grabau, of New York who delivered many noted lectures in Boston in the last few years will speak on "The Responsibility of America Citizenship" under the suspices of the Cantabrigian Club in Brattle Hall this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Club members will be admitted on membership tickets. Guest tickets may be obtained from members of the Civics Committee at 50 cents each...