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THERE is a world-wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

The University Crew appeared last summer with one shade of crimson and the Eleven with another; while at Saratoga colors which were worn by the students and their friends, and called crimson, embraced all the different shades of red from bright scarlet to maroon. This diversity of shades was remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

ON the 9th of October Mr. William Blakie wrote a letter to the New York Tribune reviewing the crews of the late regatta and examining their future prospects. Under the impression that we have three men of the last crew who will pull next summer, he says that "instead of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

THE window which has lately been placed in Memorial Hall is another sample of American work, and shows what a state of perfection the art of making stained-glass windows has attained in Boston alone. The present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

THREE numbers of the Amherst Student have reached us during the past fortnight. Two of them are published together, and three of the huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »