File:In Cap And Gown (Cynthia Grey poem).jpg

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English: a 1904 poem by "Cynthia Grey", about how attractive college-educated women are. The phrase "met your Waterloo" refers to the Battle of Waterloo, and indicates that an unmarried man will be unable to resist (and therefore, be defeated by) such a woman's attractiveness.
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-31/ed-1/seq-2/ (The Tacoma Times)
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  • Poem: "Cynthia Grey" (apparently a pseudonym of Gertrude Price, later Gertrude Price Wilmot)
  • top illustration: unknown
  • bottom illustration: Edward Samuel Goodnow

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