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Pearl Stein '07 models the suffragette costume.
Typhoid Mary spreads her disease.
Locally grown candied beets.
published on 10/26/07
Backpage | Halloween 1907-2007: A Century of Hospital Visits
Molly Finkelstein
Backpage Editor
Current Vassar students may think they invented the “wild party,” but they are sorely mistaken. The members of the Vassar College Class of 1907 were, as they said back then, crazy as bed-bugs. The Class of ’07 is primarily known for starting the tradition of the Halloween Party in Main Building. The first Halloween party got off to a slow start, but after the punch bowl became tainted with liquor, the party really began. A hoard of young cadets from West Point, dressed as ladies, crashed the fête. A whopping 87 percent of the Class of ’07 ended the night with either a trip to the hospital or a trip to the basement with a cadet. Current students should be eternally grateful for the Class of ’07, becausewithout them, we would all be wearing un-slutty costumes, eating candy, and doing charity work. —VCEncyclopedia
Tricks:
• Replacing the whalebone in your roommate’s corset with licorice
• Spiking the punch with absinthe
• Telling the freshmen that Vassar is merging with Yale
• Pulling up your friend’s skirt to reveal her stocking.
Top Costumes:
• Harloty Edith Roosevelt
• Harloty Savage from the Orient
• Harloty Muckraker
• Harloty Henry Ford
• Harloty Suffragette
Scandals:
• Bertha Hildebrand and Ethel Montgomery were indicted for passing around a bad batch of ye olde ecstacye.
• Gertrude Peterson was caught hiding a male suitor underneath her petticoat.
• Mabel Hargrove rode her penny-farthing, wearing nothing but pearls and pantaloons through the Rose Parlor, while all the stable boys watched.
Treats:
• Candied apples
• Candied yams
• Candied beets
• Candied catfish
Most Played on the Phonograph:
• “Jebediah Methuzaleh, Ridin’ Dirty in My Model-T” by Ca-ha’penny, feat. 50-Pence
• “You Can Stand Under My Parasol” by Mildred
• “Telegraph on Me” by Ellsworth Prydz
Ghosts Present at Party:
• William McKinley
• Matthew Vassar
• Typhoid Mary
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
The Miscellany Monthly
October 31, 1907
Security Briefs:
H2OhNoGraph!
An unidentified female dropped Edna Whitmore’s phonograph in the toilet. Anyone with information should send a telegram to Security as soon as possible.
Petti-Coat Crime
There were many petty thieveries this Halloween, with upwards of 300 petticoats stolen. It is suspected that cadets from West Point, dressed in drag, are the culprits.
Someone drank the party punch...
Dorothy Wilson’s V-card is missing. Would anyone who witnessed her losing it please inform her who might have taken it?
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