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Photograph or print of An Isis Incident [sketches of amusing University scenes: undergraduate about to drop mortar board from his room to fellow undergraduates below; undergraduate thrown into Christ Church Tom Quad frozen pond (-15C); undergraduate standing on chair as if in Oxford Union debate; dripping wet undergraduate; hansom cab with throng of undergraduates in St. Aldate's Street outside Christ Church; suggestions for an 'Isis Crest' with motto: 'Be though familiar but by no means vulgar' . Notes: Isis is an undergraduate magazine; quotation from Hamlet Act 1, Sc. 3, p. 3] [end of JJ album 6] [John Johnson 1160] by D.W.B; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.

G.A. Oxon. 4o 418, fol. 1191

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Photograph or print of An Isis Incident [sketches of amusing University scenes: undergraduate about to drop mortar board from his room to fellow undergraduates below; undergraduate thrown into Christ Church Tom Quad frozen pond (-15C); undergraduate standing on chair as if in Oxford Union debate; dripping wet undergraduate; hansom cab with throng of undergraduates in St. Aldate's Street outside Christ Church; suggestions for an 'Isis Crest' with motto: 'Be though familiar but by no means vulgar' . Notes: Isis is an undergraduate magazine; quotation from Hamlet Act 1, Sc. 3, p. 3] [end of JJ album 6] [John Johnson 1160] by D.W.B; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.

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G.A. Oxon. 4o 418, fol. 1191

Date

[c.1896]

Language

English

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Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures

Shrimpton caricatures Volume 7

Photograph or print of An Isis Incident [sketches of amusing University scenes: undergraduate about to drop mortar board from his room to fellow undergraduates below; undergraduate thrown into Christ Church Tom Quad frozen pond (-15C); undergraduate standing on chair as if in Oxford Union debate; dripping wet undergraduate; hansom cab with throng of undergraduates in St. Aldate's Street outside Christ Church; suggestions for an 'Isis Crest' with motto: 'Be though familiar but by no means vulgar' . Notes: Isis is an undergraduate magazine; quotation from Hamlet Act 1, Sc. 3, p. 3] [end of JJ album 6] [John Johnson 1160] by D.W.B; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.

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