The Butler Book, Yale, 1913
Week Three of this year’s Back-to-School College Comics brings us to a few sample extracts from The Butler Book, by (at the time of its June 16th, 1913 publication) graduating Yale senior Alban Bernard Butler. This collection of Butler cartoons first saw print in the Yale Record. Butler later served in the military during World War I. His cartoons of his WW I experiences were published in the 1917 booklet Training for the Trenches, and the 1928 collection, Happy Days. He also occasionally contributed to the pamphlets handed out/sold by unemployed veterans, during Great Depression I.
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Below, Butler’s generic impressions of Yale, followed by his “Post-Prom Impressions”.
The above college football tribute is titled “Bucking the Tiger”. Below, Butler pictures Princeton, and (from the male perspective) the all-female Vassar.
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