Cantab.
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Origin of Cantab.
Latin: of Cambridge
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Thus dismissed the august presence, he recounts this jobation to his friends, and enters into a discourse on masters, deans, tutors, and proctors.—Grad. ad Cantab., p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
A varmint man spurns a scholarship, would consider it a degradation to be a fellow.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
He in consequence engages a private tutor, and buys all the cram books published for the occasion.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
The Proctor makes a claim of 6s. 8d. on every undergraduate whom he finds inermem, or without his academicals.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Cantab. on coal brandy, 352. —— on Hallam's Middle Ages, 51. —— origin of swot, 352.
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