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•——— Prologue ———• vii Prologue, xi 1. The Wickedest City in America, 1 2. These Leap Year Girls Are Getting Awfully Bold, 20 3. Vassar’s Crisis and Cora’s Humiliation, 35 4. Memorable Date of Entrance, 50 5. The Green Girls, 60 6. Mugwumps and Oysters, 70 7. College Pie with Tomatoes—Entirely New, 85 8. Abandoned at Christmas, 97 9. First Time Out from College, 104 10. Vassar Girl on a String, 121 11. Oh! u Wretch!, 137 12. Only 17,000 Minutes till Our Next Vacation, 147 13. The Girl of the Period, 158 14. The No. 2000 Horse, 170 15. Alas—So Vilely Played and So Carelessly Practiced, 182 16. A Great Shock, 190 17. The Animated Stump, 202 18. Dear Davenport Dear Home, 214 19. The Black List, 222 20. My Year’s Absence from D, 234 21. My Interesting Stranger Friend, 241 22. The Sentimental Satellites, 255 23. The Vassar Trio, 270 Contents viii •——— prologue ———• 24. U Played Just Like a Wild Girl, 280 25. Poor Boys Who Have Become Rich, 287 26. The Gem of the Evening, 298 27. Life Underground and Its Dangers, 317 28. Cora’s Heart’s Desire, 339 29. Oh! How Little They Know. Anybody!, 351 Epilogue, 358 Acknowledgments, 369 Glossary, 373 Notes, 377 Bibliography, 385 Name Index, 391 •——— contents ———• •——— Prologue ———• ix Vassar College . . . shaped itself in her mind into an innumerable number of records that form the raw material from which all history is written. —Lucy Salmon, Vassar professor of history, 1915 b x •——— prologue ———• Cora “Corize” Keck, graduate of Vassar’s School of Music in 1886. ...