Epitaphs and shuffles in a chaotic paper page
A fragmented reader note mocks printers missing Lincoln's birthday and a rush to finish a dummy. Jokes and snippets follow from a newspaper page including poems, quips, and a pun about timing and dancing with Mary.
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Lincoln
Last Word in Education A Parody From Wellesley News
A humorous dialogue questions why students fail and whether praise or criticism sways them. The piece features a mock debate about effort and motivation, ending with a quip about college earnings.
Short-Circuited Student and Instructor Exchange
A brief exchange from Vassar Miscellany shows a student noting possible influence from Coleridge while the instructor counters that influence was not present. The line captures campus literary culture and dialogic tone.
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Coleridge
Vassar Miscellany
Fragmentary dialogue pieces in a wartime publication
A collection of garbled lines including lodge reservations accusations and a line about a husband dying naturally or being shot at sunrise. The text features quoted phrases and a character named Jack O'Lantern amid fragmented wartime narration.
Epitaphs for a Crocus and a Joke on March
A whimsical verse buries a quiz beneath crocus sod with Fate mocked as it failed to prosper. The speaker offers consolation that in March the quiz may find reincarnation and life anew.
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Jake
Debating Society Motions Asks 1889 Miss Gladstone Letter
To the Editor of the Bulletin Mary Ellis Opdycke notes a 1889 letter from the Secretary of Miss Gladstone, president of Newnham College. The debates include beliefs on national greatness, fashion, military institutions, patriotism, rhetoric, labor, compromise, and taste.
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Gladstone
Newnham College
Cambridge
England
Mary Ellis Opdycke
Two Prong Corner 112th St Stores Broadway Corner
New York brief notes two storefronts at Two Prong Corner near 112th Street with entrances on Broadway and at the corner of 84th Street. Details are minimal and unverified in the fragment.
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Broadway
84Th St
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Burr
Marie
Flack
Lluli
Wellesley
Jack O’ Lantern
Bulletin
Madam
Cox & Vining
Albany, N. Y
Offic al Makers
Louise Rissland Barnara
Columbia University Press
Wassell Pharmacy
New York
A. G. Seiler
Amsterdam Avenue
120Th Street
Morningside
J. G. Papadem & CO. Florists
A. L. Russell, Inc
Barnard
Stone Street