Victoria University College Capping Programme 1929
Cast Up Caricatures
Cast Up Caricatures.
Tamfuli | H. C. Read |
Siliasa | H. J. Bishop |
Connoisseurs in "long pig."
"Dinner was made for eatin', not for talkin'."
—Thackeray.
Guano. Chief of the Meeow: A Nuggeted Napoleon
A. H. Fear
"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk
with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you . . . "
—Merchant of Venice.
Cafe au Lait, daughter of the Chief: A tinted Venus
Sinclair A. Breen
page 21"Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair, Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair."
—Wordsworth.
Gordy Groatz: Flotsam and jetsam | A. D. Priestley |
"Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together."
—Browning.
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
—Burke.
General Koffmikstcha Bootemoutski, of the Red Army: On Sacred Service
Rona Munro
"Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
—Mark Twain.
Captain Musselbound. still Commander H.M.V. Bottleship "Fillemup."
W. P. Rollings
"When men come to like a sea life they are not fit to live on land."
—Johnson.
Semolina, his daughter: A painting after Groatz.
Edna M. Purdie
"Such a she who'll match for me
In flying or pursuing ..."
—Meredith.
Cannibals, Coconuts, Hula Hula Hussies, Ukeleles, Beer-sheviks. Jack Tars, Ichthyosaurus Beetles, Coral Palms, Copra Reefs, and millions of other Pacific problems.