Junior Prom Dances With Family Instead of Dates
A poet recounts selecting a brother as escort after friends refuse invites. The speaker notes The Oven lacks a formal dress while companions like Bobbie Harold Jommy Jack Arthur Harry Ray and others are unavailable for the Junior Ball, leaving the traveler to attend with a brother due to a sequence of rejections and travel considerations.
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Sure
Bobbie
Harold
Jommy
Jack
Arthur
Arkansas
Harry
Ray
Tom
Bill
Brother
Bessie Returns From South Messy With Measles Rumor
The note says a girl named Bessie returned from the south in a messy state and reportedly spread measles to Tessie. The brief hints at a contagious illness and a possible transfer between individuals.
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Chere
Bessie
Tessie
Ode on My Studious Bathing and Dancing Footnote
The speaker boasts of eccentric routines to please a muse of learning and sport. They claim brushing teeth up and down swallowing water bathing thrice weekly and binding feet to please Greek gods. They ask if such devotion merits an A.
Summer Idyll Turns From Ice to Pond for Me
A child recalls a lost skating rink turned to a pond at Barnard and laments the end of hockey dreams. The piece contrasts school life with fond tennis court memories and a line about Archie Boss’s cousin stirs reflection on writing for the bulletin.
Madison era note from a wary correspondent
A personal reflection pairing a wary tone with a self declared patriot. The speaker mentions Mr Marquis and a plan to visit Jenny's summer cottage by the furnace to conjure warmer thoughts for future writing.
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Pshaw
Marquis
Jenny
Barnard Students Propose Sign on Holiday Stance
A suggested sign for Barnard College students on February 12 states I am not crazy though I am a student of Barnard College I am on my way to college now because the powers that be have given us no holiday Thank you for your interest.
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Barnard
Curtis
Barnard College
Powers That Be
Professor Massey advocates a Society for Extermination of Believers
A fragment references Professor Massey urging a Society for Extermination of Believers in Inevitability. The speaker notes disbelief until it occurred and mentions an economics exam failure as a casual aside.
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Professor Massey
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Dear Lady Boss
Lonny
Jonny
Bulletin
Mr. Marquis
Archie Boss
Archie
Lizard
Amsterdam Avenue
118Th Street
Blout
108Th Street
Broadway
Victrola .S
Daly
City
Cox Sons & Vining
Madison Ave
N.Y
V. Bunker
Consumers * League
Columbia Gymnasium Suit Co
Congress Street
Boston
Mass
A. G. Seiler
Evry
Morningside
P. H. Ohlkers
Opp
Furnale
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