Cantab.
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Origin of Cantab.
Latin: of Cambridge
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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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
Cantab. on coal brandy, 352. —— on Hallam's Middle Ages, 51. —— origin of swot, 352.
Jebb was the ideal Cantab.; didactic, professorial, the Public Orator; seeming incomplete without a gown: but for his rare and apt appearances, he might have overdone the part.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
At Cambridge and eke at Oxford, every stripling is accounted a Man from the moment of his putting on the gown and cap.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
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