Ten Commandments on Richmond campus satire
A campus spoof lists commandments praising Richmond University while lampooning student life. It mixes rules about classes, study, and campus conduct with satirical lines on romance and social antics.
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Newspaper
Richmond Collegian
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
3
Ye Guileless Barde and the Buffetting Wife
A verse from Columbia Jester recounts a guileless bard who pleases his spouse with poetry all day and causes a fatal duel after she opens his ode. His chosen title mocks his first wife and sparks a violent outcome.
No, whiskey ruined reputations and men ruin whiskey
A dialogue from a humorous piece features Broncho Bob arguing that whiskey harms reputations of many men while noting some men without account try to ruin whiskey as well. The exchange satirically contrasts vice and indifference in a Western setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broncho Bob
Random Fragments Prompt Ambition and Ironies
A collection of aphoristic lines contrasts dreams and reality and notes how ambition can soar yet falter. The snippets imply caution about vanity and the social weight of generosity, with playful wordplay on a cucumber metaphor.
Christmas Nuts North Report Sugar Profiteers
In a light exchange, North notes fewer sugar profiteers while West jokes they may have shifted to selling coal, reflecting a playful holiday-era banter about market changes.
Londoner and New Yorker Trade City Nerves and Local Ties
Londoner complains about straight streets and buildings in New York. The New Yorker jokes that a nearby place knows him and helps him adjust, highlighting casual city familiarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New Yorker
Not to Be Continued Oil Stock Exchange Snippet
A brief, fragmented dialogue hints at an unresolved tale about oil stock investments. The exchange asks about the fate of a stock purchase while someone responds with a resigned remark.
Fragmented Exchange Sparks Onstage Feud
A tense exchange unfolds with a character protesting ignorance of kissing a man while another retorts about propriety. The fragment hints at social flirtations and potential mischief among unnamed actors in a staged scene.
Point of View Frosh Picture Quandary Mystery
A classroom exchange in rustic dialect questions where frosh struggle to locate missing pins. The conversation hints at misdirected items, with one remark stressing they point in one direction while heading another, suggesting confusion and humor.
Appreciation for Wifey and Hasty Pudding Exchange
A playful exchange notes affection for a wife and jokes about hasty pudding. The husband jokes the concrete froth would take a month to set, implying a humorous exaggeration.
Drama in Tabloid Act I Their Eyes Met
A tabloid drama unfolds across acts with romantic tension followed by a legal clash as lovers meet, kiss, quarrel, and finally face lawyers and a judge in a public legal confrontation.
Fragmentary note on a drifting scene with an arm mystery
The writer recalls yesterday's drift with a gentleman who seems to have one arm at first glance. The second arm appears to be somewhere else, described with a puppetry metaphor.
Fall Examinations Begin Fr day 17th
Fall term exams start Friday the 17th and run through Wednesday the 22nd. Dean Gaines restricts changes to the schedule without dean’s office consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Gaines
Close Competition En Livens Philologians
At a Philologian Literary Society meeting K F E Winder won best reader over G G Atkins while R W Mapp and G M Hodges delivered strong declamations. Hodges edged Mapp on points. W H Price spoke on sketches of Southern life before the war. Debaters were absent for part of the program and the session adjourned to discuss intercollegiate debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. FE. Winder
G. G. Atkins
Philologian Literary Society
Atkins
R. W. Mapp
G. M. Hodges
Hodges
W.H. Price
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Enlivens Philologians
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