Bright cool windy day. To college 9 to 2:30 P.M. Played tennis with H.H. & Leslie Jones. Bowled at Star. To Proctor's with H.H. Punk show. Delta Epsilon class meeting here. To bed 12 P.M.
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I was curious as to what Stanford may have meant by punk in this context, so I checked with online dictionaries as well as searching the NY Times archives. Apparently the word meant inferior or very poor, as it was used to describe a poor pitching performance in 1907, and the state of New Jersey after it refused to vote for women's suffrage in 1913. So it's safe to say whatever show Stanford saw at Proctor's was pretty bad.
What a full day! College classes, tennis, bowling, vaudeville show, and meeting!
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