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Identifier: 1921oracle
Title: Oracle, The
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Southwestern State Teachers College
Subjects: 01. Institutional Identity: (1921 – 1938) Southwestern State Teachers College 02. Publication Catagory: Annual 02. Publication Catagory: Yearbook 02. Publication Catagory: Memory Book 03. Publication Title: The Oracle 04. Year of Publication: 1921 05. Publication Format: Book
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J erone. Mr. Lance. A delicious three course luserved, which was planned by Miss Maude Smith. On Halloween night the Preparatory class enjoyed aSpook Party. Everyone came masked. The room wasbeautifully decorated in the class colors, green and white,with black cats hiding in the comers, jack o lanterns hang-ing in the windows, welcoming every ghost which came upthe long ghostly walk to the building and through the halls. Games were played and refreshments of apples, candyand wafers were served. In January the classes enjoyed a Snow Party.Games were played and refreshments of hot chocolate andsandwiches were served. Several hikes helped add to the social life of the Pre-paratory class.

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^LrfSft ODACLL There are annuals and annuals, and there are Oracles.There have been Oracles and Oracles, and there is this one.Oracle Staffs from year to year, from time to time, havewith trials and tribulations produced works reflecting theCollege as they thought they saw it. But rarely has aClass had the courage to reflect Southwestern Life exactlyas it is—not hesitating to put faculty or student in thatwhite light of truth that blackens every blot. We startedto quote Tennyson (another superiority of this staff) butfound that the middle of the quotation didnt apply and forplace of this statement see the joke on John Brown, page350. So it is with confidence we submit this 1921 Oracleto a body of Students whose courage to face truth even asit is presented here is undoubted; Students whose couragedid not falter when confronted by the Baptist UniversityCoach and who present a brave exterior though. it maycover quaking hearts to one of Dr. Eskridges Chapel talks. Few Oracle staffs have

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice – The Warlord of Mars (1969 PB)

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The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ballantine Books, Fifth Printing: February, 1969
158 pages
Cover art by Bob Abbett

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Turkish version of the Wonders of creation, The lion king surrounded by his subjects, Walters Manuscript W.659, fol. 267b

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This is an Ottoman illuminated and illustrated Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation) by Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī (d. 692 AH / 1293 CE), made at the request of the Vizier Murtaza Paşa (Murtaḍá Pāshā) (fl. eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE). The codex was completed in 1121 AH / 1717 CE by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Shākir Rūzmah-ʾi Nāthānī. There are 444 paintings illustrating the text. The binding is not original to the manuscript.