Victoria University College. Capping Carnival "G.G.". A Musical Extravaganza. [1929]
Cast Off Caricatures
Cast Off Caricatures.
First Vice-President of the 1929 Committee of the Amalgamated Secret Societies of Cockieland | A. E. Hurley |
Second Vice-President A.S.S. | F. N. Hastings |
"Not all those who have long knives are cooks."
—Russian Proverb.
President A.S.S. | W. J. Mountjoy |
"Beware of that man. He believes every word he says."
—Diderot.
Willum Mangel-Wurzel | H. J. Bishop |
Gaarge Greenfly | H. C. Read |
The undergraduates of the Messy Agricultural College.
page 17"A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds" —Bacon.
Cockie One | A. E. Hurley |
Cockie Two | F. N. Hastings |
Cockie Three | J. C. Winkle |
Professors of the Messy Agricultural College.
"Would that I might live for ever
Where those who make me happy dwell."
—T. Sturge Moore.
Gaudeamus Groatz (known to his friends as "Gordy")—the most beautiful man on earth | A. D. Priestley |
"When things are as pretty as that, criticism is out of season." —R. L. Stevenson.
Jawnseagh, of the Temple of Beauty | M. O. Guthrie |
"Over-anxious for truth and more fond of likeness than of beauty." —Quintilian.
Buttercup Strawberry Pansy Daisy Darkie: The Plunket Cow. | J. C. Fabian. |
"... the loveliest things of beauty God ever has showed to me, Are her voice and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips." —Masefield.
Conspirators, Plunket Babies, Cockies, Matadors, Cuspidors, Corridors, Brethren of the Squared Circle, Publicity Agents, and hundreds of other Men on the Land.