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  1. A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, west-northwest of Hamilton. Population 110,372.
  2. A municipal borough of east-central England on the Cam River north-northeast of London. It is an ancient market town and the site of Cambridge University, established in the 12th to 13th century. Population: 99,800.
  3. A city of eastern Massachusetts on the Charles River opposite Boston. Settled in 1630 as New Towne, it is known for its research and educational facilities, including Harvard University (founded in 1636), the Radcliffe Institute for Higher Learning (formerly Radcliffe College, founded 1879), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1861). Population: 101,000.

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  • And so I came back with that news to Cambridge, and Bragg said, "Build models." —  James Watson on how he discovered DNA
  • When it afterward became a question whether the young heir should go to Oxford or to Cambridge, the doctor, who seems to have been a universal authority, allowed that Cambridge was the best for a man of study, whilst Oxford had more dash and spirit in it: so little are matters altered since that time. —  Beaux and Belles of England
  • She has a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Cambridge, and her anti-career ranges from reading tarot cards on Brighton pier to teaching in Central Asia. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • When he accepted the chair offered him at Cambridge, there were neither collections nor laboratories belonging to his department. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • The contributors were by no means confined to Boston and Cambridge, although the Massachusetts list was naturally the largest, nor were they found exclusively among literary and scientific circles. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
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