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Vassar girls have a little custom which pleases the youths who are allowed to drop in at occasional receptions, but which is rather hard on the pantry stock of the institution. The spoons. I noticed. when I took lunch at the college yesterday afternoon, were stamped deeply "Vassar Female College...

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

The University of Cambridge comprises seventeen colleges, each, of course, with its own government, buildings and grounds. The college grounds are much smaller than those of the average American college. The number of students is about the same as in our institutions. Much more attention is paid to the comfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/14/1882 | See Source »

the Corsair makes his first appearance in American poetry. "Hannah Bantry in the pantry," who employed her solitude in gnawing a mutton-bone, is the prototype of the "Marchioness." Hannah, to be sure, seems, in this instance, to have solaced her loneliness in a more sordid manner than the curious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIZABETH GOOSE. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

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