Word: cantabrigian
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...locations that the average visitor to Paris is never to see. To enter the Institut, if one is not an immortal oneself, a personal recommendation from one of the elect is required. Yet, not counting among friends or acquaintances any member of the academies, I gingerly proffered my Cantabrigian parchment. After a series of formal exchanges in my very best (but still quite mediocre) French, I found myself with a flowery endorsement by the secrétaire perpétuel of the Academy of Moral Sciences. I was soon part of a world of emerald tapestries, of rooms where...
...home, I dreamed of such a place itself. I’ve never been so far away, I kept thinking; I’ve never been so far from everyone I love. But somewhere between the 120th and 125th vocabulary terms, I started to realize something else: like the Cantabrigian Harvard, being able to take Mandarin this summer is also turning out to be a thrilling, utterly awesome experience. I can say things with just a few syllables in Chinese that I couldn’t in English—from “decadent music?...
...he’s a true Cantabrigian at heart—a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and a lover of all things urban...
...think I ever got a Harvard ticket,” Royce writes, “and what Cambridge tickets I got I didn’t pay.”Still, some undergraduates complained that the enforcement amounted to a vendetta against student motorists, driven by angry Cantabrigian natives and a hostile local police force. Louis Altman, then a student at Harvard Law School, sent a letter to the Cambridge Police Chief detailing his claims of police discrimination. Only cars belonging to students or those with out-of-state plates were ticketed, he claimed, which violated...
Every week, before Cambridge’s city council gets down to business, it opens the floor for public comment. During this period, any Cantabrigian may address the council for three minutes about any item on that day’s agenda. A core group of persistent citizens stretch this rule to the limit every week to advocate for the environment, defend the rights of the disabled, and expose abuses of power...