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 Benjamin Homer Hall
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 Stephen Lucius Gwynn
He is obliged to stomach the impos., and retire.—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
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
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