The Commencement Garb and College Day Traditions
The piece traces graduation attire origins from medieval robes to modern gowns at Oxford and Cambridge, then outlines U S practices. It then catalogs college day rites at Columbia Princeton Yale and women’s colleges Bar nard Vassar Wellesley and Swarthmore, noting costumes pranks and the ivy or tree planting rituals. It highlights alumni antics and the playful, sometimes elaborate pageantry surrounding class day events.
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Oxford
Cambridge
United States
Princeton
Yale
Princeton Tiger
Fife
West Point
Ginte
Barland
Colombia
Barnard
Vassar
Wellesley
Swarthmere
Reyn Swe
Left Handed Men In The Great National Game
Baseball talk centers on left handed players as potential stars with managers Kling and Davis praising the value of left handed hitters and fielders. Mentions Marquard Rucker Plank Wasner and Dots as superstition notes. Includes a cost breakdown for outfitting a major league team and a quip about the Boston Americans spending more on baseballs than rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Celestial Empire
Columbia
Princeton
Johnny Kling
Boston Nationals
Kling
Daubert
Brooklyn
Cats
Harry Davis
Cleveland Blues
Lefty George
Brown
Davis
Marquard
Rucker
Plank
Thomas G. Davis
New York Ameriones
Boston Americans
Noble duel ends with escape and exile after Paris trial
A XVI century melee near Dijon escalates when a girl is wounded by a noble hunter. A Paris student doctor saves her life, later becoming Count Duriac, and 18 years later, during the Reign of Terror, Mme Duriac and her daughter Louise flee to England aboard a British vessel with help from a mysterious conductor.
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Paris
Madeine
Henri Durlac
Antoine Garnier
Lizette
Garnier
Henri Duriac
Count Duriac
Marts
Mme. Durluc
Louise
France
Marquis of
Chese
Duriac
Purine
Fon
Englanl
Durlac
Aggregation of Absurdities and Witty Exchanges
A collage of quips and jokes from various outlets on philanthropy politics manners and misadventures. It riffs on a corporate gesture to long serving clerks a wary financial politician on receptions and ovations a sailor tale a musician’s abroad study jab and a comic book clerk misdirecting a marriage bureau.
An Occasion For Cowardice and Other Amusing Quips
A compact miscellany reviews witty exchanges and garbled banter from periodicals including the Philadelphia Press Boston Transcript Yonkers Statesman Tit Bits Life and other papers. Jests touch on aging manners honesty debt romance and social missteps with a dry old newsroom tone. The snippets showcase character dialogue about marriage appearance competence and secrecy as seen in a string of brief captioned lines.
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Ilac
Russet Brown
Roth
Ymbel
T Ie
Graalfarlers
Sweet Girl
Pittsburgh
Hans Wasner
Dots
Kearny
Miller
Pirates
Cass
Grandmma
Grandpa
N. J
M.A
Pan
Louis R. Williamson
Dijon
Marquis of Tours
Messieurs
Alene
Giscovering
Detroit
Younes Man
Miss Jones
Tatler
Hattie
Marriage Kureau
Philadelphia
Miss Ann Teek
Mr. Blunt
Mr. Blunt—Weill
Philadelphia Press
Boston Transcript
Bacon
Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
Balti
Maria
Henpeckke
John
Cleveland Plain Desler
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