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...Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester Giant," "The Cannibal," "The Spectre Pig," "Evening, by a Tailor," and "The Height of the Ridiculous," - these, with many others in the volume, are credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes. John Osborne Sargent, writing under the pseudonym of Charles Sherry, was the managing editor; and his then prolific pen is responsible for a large part of the Collegian, as before of the Register...
...John Jones, the Piccadilly tailor who recently died and bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum a choice collection of art objects, gave also, it appears, the sum of $1,000,000 to another public institution of exceptional worth and desert. At Ventnar, on the Isle of Wight, there was founded, some years ago, a hospital for consumptives, on the cottage system, and to this Mr. Jones has left his $1,000,000. The hospital is one of the youngest in the country and one of the best...
...They would like you as one of their student traders, and your order for some sort of a garment, if only a trouser, would be appreciated by them and prove a satisfaction to you. These goods are immediate in style." - [Extract from a tailor's circular about college...
...just come from Smith, the tailor's, and I sank into my comfortable easy-chair - the only chair which I never offer to a stranger - with a mingled sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from...
...standards, not in this man's taste, nor in that man's taste, nor in any man's taste, but simply in a quiet, trustful following of whatever light our own experience has given us. People are so willing, it seems to me, to submit themselves to one great tailor or another great tailor, and try to persuade themselves that all the good taste in the world is summed up in him. But surely this is not the deepest, the truest way of looking at things. Let me illustrate this...