Student Life At Amherst College Its Organizations Their Membership And History
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The discontinuance of these " Mocks " 132 CATTLE SHOW. THE FINAL EXAMINATION. is no matter for regret, certainly, for their tendency has been to deterioration in wit and increase in vulgarity. CATTLE SHOW. " Cattle Show " has ever been a great day for the students, and a holiday on that occasion has always been granted as a matter of course. Perhaps at no time have the collegians been so successful in the way of prize-taking, as in one year when members of the Sophomore class ('63), bore away a...ll the prizes offered for running, jumping, and heaving. "BLUE SKINS. " One very curious custom, which existed during the years from 1821 to 1826, should be noted. It was the practice to hang in effigy those students who, by special attention to the Faculty, had gained the obnoxious name of " Blue-skins. " How this term came to be used in the college-slang of that day, we have no knowledge ; the modern equivalent of the word is " Toady. " GOWN PARADE. The " Gown Parade " of the class of '70, on the anni- versary of its " Cane Row" with '69, was something entirely unique, and, to those who witnessed it, a very comical sight.
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