Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seemed nothing strange to go into the class room, take my assigned seat and go through with the recitation entirely oblivious to the "distraction" next to me. To conceive of this feeling of disregard for the occupant of the next seat, one must distinguish between the typical boarding-school girl, who is sent for an education, and the mature woman who goes for an education. Very rare is the exception when a lady does or says any thing in the class room or on the campus which would not become her in the drawing room. All of them show...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Ideal Opera Company in "The Bohemian Girl." Performance...
...rather remarkable advertisement appears in one of the New York theatrical papers of a new musical sketch now ready for production. Its title is "That Girl from Vassar," in which "Virgie Vane, the pet of Vassar," and "Harry Hall, from Harvard, general athlete, with a record of 10 1/2 seconds," figure as the principal and striking characters. A new dance is introduced, called the "Harvard shuffle." We extend the hand of sympathy in our common affliction to our sisters at Vassar...
Robert Grant, author of "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," has written a new novel, called "An Average...
...Girl graduates in England wear gowns precisely like those worn by University men, and made by the same tailor. At present they have only donned the B. A., or Bachelor of Arts robes, which is black and brown, and the B. S. C., or Bachelor of Science, which is yellow and black, but no doubt in turn they will attain to those of higher degree. - [Telgram.] If the gowns are becoming to the young ladies no doubt thousands of the sex will endeavor to attain a title just to see how they would look in the robes. This will make...