Title: Diets and Riots: From the Annals of Harvard Signed 1st EditionAuthor: A. M. Bevis [Mabel Vernon- Women's Suffrage Association] Date: 1936Publisher: Marshall Jones Company BostonEdition: 1st editionAdditional Info: Diets and Riots: An Interpretation of the History of Harvard University (Memorable Pages from the Annals of Harvard). The book is inscribed to Mrs. Mabel Vernon. Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement; a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon was one of the principal members of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) alongside Olympia Brown, Inez Milholland, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, and helped to organize the Silent Sentinels protests that involved daily picketing of Woodrow Wilson's White House. The dust jacket is very good. The binding is clean, square, firm, and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. A highly presentable first printing, signed by the author, of this humorous history of Harvard University as told through a series of gustatory and riotous events, including: the banning of plum cake, the great feast of 1642, the butter rebellion, the battle of India tea, the anti-Christian spoons, the annual stolen kiss, the great rebellion, fires around the pump, the lone fish ball, the cabbage rebellion, Rinehart!, the forty toasts, John the Orangemen translates Veritas, and more.
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