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This, I have decided while watching my overburdened classmates straggle through what are supposed to be the best years of their lives, is the problem with life here in lovely, chilly Cantabridgia. There isn't enough drinking--not nearly enough! Alcohol is expensive, parties are lame and everyone has a paper due the next day and a resume to pad. No one has the time to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life: the rich, loamy taste of a Guinness pint, the bubbly bite of a gin and tonic, the subtle musk of a fine merlot. Put bluntly...
Forget the death penalty. Never mind handgun control. Stop fussing about heightened police protection. The Crime rate around Cantabridgia will drop precipitously the next five days. But never fear. . . we'll resume publication Monday. Meanwhile, get stuffed...
...long ago, the staid and refined Cantabridgia Club was transformed with the help of several sheets of orchid tinted boarding into the bacchanalian Club 100. Several blocks from this whoopee manufactory stands another old establishment with a new lease on life: yellow, clapboarded Brattle Hall. For years an annual set of Saturday night subscription dances, fondly remembered by contemporaries of U. M. Pulbam and others as the "Brats," were held here. And sporadically, throughout many a winter, its grimly rearward rooms were taken over by obstreperous young amateur thespians who would onliven otherwise dull performances by jiggling scenery and communicating...
...Death There Is None," the story of the tragic fate of ten girls in a Nazi concentration camp, will be presented by a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students next Monday, May 3, at Cantabridgia Hall in Cambridge for the benefit of the United Nations War Relief...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, and Lead Belly, the great Negro singer with a questionable past, will be featured at a dance at Cantabridgia Hall tonight. This is a swell opportunity to hear Bobby in an atmosphere more congenial to him than what the Versailles has to offer... DECCA has just released an album entitled "Gems of Jazz." It consists of a number of records made in this country several years ago for release in England. Consequently, most of them will be quite welcome to collectors now. Included in the album are two of Mildred Bailey...