MA. L.

[Bailey, too, in his _Dictionary_, applies the epithet exclusively to

Cambridge, _Alma mater Cantabrigia_: so that it seems to have

originated with that university. It is now popularly applied to Oxford,

and other universities, by those who have imbibed the milk of learning

from these places. The epithet has lately been transplanted to the

United States of America.]

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