Acorn Jokes, page 229

"The Acorn" (that is Coe's yearbook if you haven't read the last two Thursday posts) wasn't always called "The Acorn".  It was first titled "Ziz Boom Gee" after the yell for the "class of nineteen O'three".  It then had a long stint as "The Rabbit" after the city Coe calls home, Cedar Rabbits (for those who don't know Coe resides in Cedar Rapids, named after the rapids in the river it sits along, but students thought themselves quite clever in 1904).  If you are confused as to why the name kept changing it should be noted that the yearbook was originally a Junior Annual.  It was created and published by the Junior class who was featured in the annual.  Because of this the junior class sometimes named the book after themselves which is what happened in 1913 when the year book was titled "The Goat" after the class mascot.  In 1914 the administration requested that the yearbook maintain a single name and "The Acorn" was chosen and used until its last issue in 2007.

Below is another page of old advertisements and jokes from the 1938 Acorn.



 

~Sara Pitcher, Archives Assistant