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Title	Hartzell Album, Page 11
Creator	Hartzell, Paul
Date.Original	1915
Description	This page displaying three photographs is titled: "Returning with Algebra, Sat. a.m. June 12, 1915" The significance of the mock funeral depicted is described in a 1930 issue of the student newspaper, the Lyre Tree: "There is a tradition of long standing at St. Stephen's that within 30 days after the close of the first semester the Freshman class shall, with all the ritual and solemnity due the occasion, secretly inter an algebra, autographed by each member of the class and with it a certain quantity of wine. To be legal, every Freshman must be at the grave during the burial. At the end of the four years, the algebra is exhumed and burned on a funeral pyre, during the Class Day exercises. Toasts are drunk to the college, and to the outgoing and incoming Senior class."
Subject.LCSH	Photograph albums St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.)
Subject.TGM	Rites & ceremonies Students
Corporate Name	St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.)
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Education People Recreation
Format.Original	Photograph album page : 11 x 7 in. (28 x 17.5 cm)
Type	Still image
Resource Identifier	bc_hartzell.008
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2007-07-18
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Paul Hartzell Album
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ; pixels; no compression

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