Word: cantabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cantab defense hold Colby to 23 shots, 10 of them in the scoreless first period, but the Snowmen struck home enough times to rob Harvard of the victory...
...Cantab ten, field-generalled by Ruth Maidman '66 and Glenn Sproul '65, emerged unscathed in seven clashed during the third edition of the tradition-draped. Husky-hosted volleyball classic...
...Burgess Hill School near London, two seven-year-olds strolled into the recreation room. "Got a match?" asked one. "Sure," said the other. The boys were puffing away, when suddenly the headmaster appeared. "Hi, Jimmy," they said with friendly smiles. Waving back with kind disinterest, James East, M.A. (Cantab.), explained to a visitor: "Kids always smoke, and I'd rather know about it than have it done in secret...
...resemble the "young buck" Byron, who kept a bear in his rooms at Trinity (dogs were barred). He is generally a public school product on scholarship; traditionalists find him distressingly "professional," the sort of lad who runs an ad agency or nightclub on the side. But today's Cantab still savors yesterday's delights, even to the services of a "gyp," who wakes him in the morning, makes his bed and calls...
Such leavening complements the Cantab's only formal assignment: reading on his own for three years in one field as preparation for his tripos-the grueling exams after his second and third years that are named after the three-legged stools on which exam takers once sat. Even this one-field approach is less specialized than it sounds. The reading is prodigious; more than 200 books a year is average. "Natural sciences'' run from anatomy to zoology, not just physics or chemistry alone. "History" includes economics, government and sociology. "English" involves intimacy with Early Irish, Early Welsh...