Original Date: 1913 Digital Date: February 17, 2010
Subject: Student Activities
Description: A postcard of a poster from the class rivalry between the class of 1916 and 1917. Text on front: "We Came-We Saw" "We Will Conquer" " U Scabby Owl-Eyed Pin Headed Simps of 1916" "You slimy, skinny, saponaceous sapajous. You unkempt, unsophisticated, unhealthy, unpalatable umbilicuses. You narrow minded nefarious, nigrescent, migratory nincompoops." "All Hope Abandon" "Ye who shall enter upon the gory battlefield upon Slaughter Saturday. Your sun-dried carcasses will be shoveled into piles and load after load will be hauled to the cold, dreary, slabs of the morgue. Signed, Class of 1917" Text on back: "Dr. Joseph E. Zeltzer '17, Detroit, Mich"
Format: jpg
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