The Oven: A Professor's Lesson and a Committee Meeting
A satirical piece describes a professor using a word that unsettles a class. The class watches for meaning while he ignores their ignorance and toys with the clock in the Trustees’ Room. He then shifts to talk of poetry and finally exits to a committee meeting.
Knit and Silence in an Odd School Poem
A humorous verse laments noisy knitting classes and a stubborn professor. The speaker longs for quiet study days while imagining war era sweaters and a desire for stillness in class. The note signs H. D. S. and a street number 718.
Who Is the Average Student Aboard the Mystery
A fragment from Gertrude Miter dated 1919 questions who the average student is at college. The speaker wonders about vague teachers and asks who the implied ‘They’ are while reflecting on chapel singing and hears melodies.
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