Introduction to Cambridgeby FROMMER'SNovember 20, 2006 The university town of Cambridge is a collage of images: the Bridge of Sighs; spires and turrets; drooping willows; dusty secondhand bookshops; carol-singing on Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel; dancing until sunrise at the May balls; Elizabethan madrigals; narrow lanes upon which Darwin, Newton, and Cromwell once walked; the "Backs" where the college lawns sweep down to the River Cam; tattered black robes of hurrying upperclassmen flying in the wind. Along with Oxford, Cambridge is one of Britain's ancient seats of learning. In many ways their stories are similar, particularly the age-old conflict between town and gown. Cambridge can name-drop with the best of them, citing alumni such as Isaac Newton, John Milton, and Virginia Woolf. Cambridge continues to graduate many famous scientists such as physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time . (read article)
At Cambridge, Bookstores in Volumeby LEWIS BURKE FRUMKES; LEWIS BURKE FRUMKES, WHO TEACHES A HUMOR-WRITING COURSE AT HARVARD, IS AUTHOR OF ''MANHATTAN COCKTAIL,'' TO BE PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER IN SEPTEMBER. May 07, 1989(read article)
Cambridgeby CECILY MCMILLAN; CECILY MCMILLAN LIVES FOR PART OF THE YEAR IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. October 14, 1990(read article)
Cambridgeby CECILY MCMILLAN; CECILY MCMILLAN LIVES FOR PART OF THE YEAR IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. October 14, 1990(read article)