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MANTEL MIRRORS. - This branch of manufacturing is now carried on extensively in Boston at PAINE'S. They also are importers of gilt and bronze frames from Italy and France. Some very fine heavy carved frames in Florentine gold leaf have been put in their ware-rooms on Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot...
...decided on their respective colors. The Echo Board, with their usual enterprise, were the first to assemble; and, amid hearty applause, it was decided that the ribbon should be of the subdued colors displayed on their shingle, - black, orange, and magenta, with the words "Harvard Echo" stamped in gilt letters on the front, - but on second thoughts it was feared that the "personal influence" of this decoration would be too great, and the idea was abandoned...
...here are gilt and silver stars...
...gilt cross above the entrance of the Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross...
Just opposite Boylston Hall there is a pendent sign that informs the star-gazing pedestrian that this is the Harvard Tea-Store; on Brighton Street a year or two ago a black painted board with gilt letters indicated the position of the Harvard Restaurant, and in numerous cigar-stores in the neighboring metropolis conspicuous placards offer to the smoking public the Harvard Cigarette. One of these institutions, the restaurant, deserved the name it bore, but the others have as little claim to the title as those uninteresting concerts that have been given in Boston in past winters under the name...