Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells A Cambridge Glossary [Paperback]

A 1995 edition of the standard guide to special terms and usages current in the Cambridge academic milieu.What are bedders, bulldogs, bedells? Like the first edition (1991), this newly revised and enlarged text aims to explain the many special words and usages current in the Cambridge academic milieu. Puzzled visitors and professors as well as students will be entertained and enlightened.What are bedders, bulldogs, bedells? Like the first edition (1991), this newly revised and enlarged text aims to explain the many special words and usages current in the Cambridge academic milieu. Puzzled visitors and professors as well as students will be entertained and enlightened.This is a new edition of Frank Stubbings' Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge ABC, first published by the author in 1991. It has now been revised, enlarged by a number of new entries, and adorned with a selection of illustrations. Like the first edition, the book aims to explain lucidly and readably the many special words and usages current in the Cambridge academic milieu. What are bedders, bulldogs, bedells? What is a tripos? What is a gyp-room? What (in the past) was a ten-year man? What was the Wooden Spoon? Puzzled visitors, freshmen, even dons, may find here first aid and refreshment.Foreword; Preface to the second edition; List of illustrations; Glossary A-Z.' & a mine of information about the complexities of Cambridge life presented with erudition and wit.' Cambridge