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...offers a refuge to those unfortunate Vassar girls who are quizzed in regard to the gum chewing and balustrade stories. That refuge is silence accompanied by a "supercilious elevation of the Vassar eyebrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1884 | See Source »

...many times mus' yo' po' mudder tell you to frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack in de face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/8/1883 | See Source »

...HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit of the production, and Vassar girls are judged by its standard. If our own girls will spread abroad such stories concerning the college, we cannot be surprised at the perpetuity of the vulgar banister, chewing-gum, and other like things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR MISS NOUGAT! | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

...girls, and take them to the theatre and Germans and sleighing-parties; it must be awful sweet - for the girls, because I have a friend in Boston who says that annex girls are terribly quiet and wear green glasses and never use slang, - she says they wouldn't chew gum for anything in the world, but I don't believe that. But don't they really use slang? Now I don't either, but Dinkie Karamel (who goes to Lasell), says that one can't get along without it; she says that you can't make yourself understood sometimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM A YOUNG LADY. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...chewing gum in the danksome tomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER THE GERMAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

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