City and administrative district (pop., 2001: 108,878), eastern England. It is the county seat of Cambridgeshire. Cambridge lies on the River Cam, a tributary of the Ouse, north of London. Originally a fording site, Cambridge possesses earthworks and Roman remains. Two monastic foundations date from the 11th-12th centuries. Cambridge received its first charter in 1207. It is best known as the site of the University of Cambridge, noted for its educational excellence and outstanding architecture. The city's economy is linked to the university and its research and development services. City (pop., 2000: 101,355), northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. Adjacent to Boston, it was founded in 1630 as one of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements. The first American institution of higher learning, Harvard College (see Harvard University), was founded here in 1636. George Washington took command of the Continental Forces at what is now Cambridge Common in 1775. In the 19th century it was the home of such literary leaders as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916. Baron Adrian of Cambridge Cambridge University of Cambridge Agreement Cambridge Platonists
Not Cambridge, America Cambridge, England, being vastly superior Where a lot of people (or students, not really being normal people) go to study stuff that's very clever and generally work a lot Or so they told us, but we thought, "No, it'll be a laugh" How wrong we were
a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University a city in Massachusetts just north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The other place Oxford view: a cold damp place in the Fens founded by a group of people thrown out of Oxford (They tell a rather different story in Cambridge!) Hence Cambrian meaning ``of or relating to the first period in the Palaeozic era, marked by the occurrence of many forms of invertebrate life '' Perhaps Cambridge is older than Oxford after all!