The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Point of Etiquette

"A Point of Etiquette." The New York Saturday Press, August 12, 1865, 23.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
journalism
Abstract

Comments on the absurdity of Oxford and Cambridge etiquette, citing an old story about two men of the same alma mater, one drowning, the other unable to save him because he never received "the honor of knowing the gentleman."