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LOST.- There was left in the gymnasium, last Saturday afternoon, a lady's black lace scarf. Will the finder please be so good as to leave the same at the gymnasium office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 3/24/1885 | See Source »

...enjoy certain privileges and exemptions not accorded to others, in the choice of rooms, paving higher fees, doing less work, and attending fewer lectures. They have two kinds of dress; the first, which is worn on public occasions, is a gown of purple damask silk, richly ornamented with gold lace. The second is a black silk gown, with full sleeves. This is worn as an "every day" dress. With both these is worn the regulation "mortarboard" of black velvet, with gold tassel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes of Students at Oxford. | 2/27/1885 | See Source »

...went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive adjectives strung before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vassar Girl at College. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

GLOBE THEATRE.-"Queen's Lace Handkerchief," Comic Opera. Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 9/29/1883 | See Source »

GLOBE THEATRE.-"Queen's Lace Handkerchief," Comic Opera. Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 9/28/1883 | See Source »

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