Judge — June 18, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE. NLESS Jupse's memory be at fault, the world is indebted to the poet Tennyson for the expression, “the sweet girl graduate.” In one of his poems there is a line about the" sweet girl graduates in their golden Ever since they have shared the honors of the month with June brides. But for the essays of the former, the world would have long ago forgotten the expression, ‘‘ Beyond the Alps lies Italy."’ President Taft has been attend- ing a number of college commencements. If he has listened attentively to the words of the ‘‘sweet girl graduates in their golden hair," he ought to know by this time just how the government should be run. To the crop of 1910 Jupcr has no special advice to offer, ‘* His Honor’* leaves that field to the commencement orators, who are usually very generous with that commodity. COLLEGE HUMORISTS. THE COLLEGE student has a keen sense of humor. If any one doubts this fact, said person may find the proof in the comic papers published by the undergraduates in various colleges. The humor found in such publications differs agreat deal from that found in Life and One critic says it possesses “a something which savors of reckless irre sponsibility and unconventionality, and CAP AND GOWN NUMBER PUBLISHED BY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Bausswice Buioins, 22 Firtw Avent, New Your icher, Present. Arthor Terry, Treasurer. Lee. Managing Filitor. Hamilton, Art. Eslitor. Reuben P. James Grant E. pressible mischief."” By way of illustration he quotes the motto of the University of Pennsylvania Punch Bowel, whieh la Farragut —* D— the torpedoes; go ahead!"’ That is what most of the college comic papers do. In fact, it may be said that it is this lack of restraint and that makes the college comic so interesting to the ordinary Yet, on the whole, the humor of these undergraduate publications is clean and may be de- scribed as ‘leaving a good taste in the mouth."* If parents but knew it, they could find much more valuable information in the teems with ir conventional reader, AN IRISHMAN’S REFLECTION. college comic than in the college cata- logue. The latter shows how the faculty looks at college life, the former how the student body takes in the situation. The fact must not be lost sight of, however, that the college comic is the mirror only of the lighter side of undergraduate life. It must not be taken too seriously. The humorous papers of American col- leges have their ups and downs a little oftener than other publications. This is due to the fact that each year the edi- tors change. To those who have the time it is interesting to note the change in the papers as editors are graduated. The in- jection of new blood annually prevents stagnation and adds a certain freshness. On the other hand, such frequent ‘** shake- ups"? in editorial rooms always make the standard a variable, never a constant. If, for example, the Cornell Widow is the cleverest publication this year, it is no indication what it will be next. First one college paper and then another. During the past year Junce has clipped very extensively from such college con- temporaries as the Cornell Widuir, the Yale Record, the Stanford Chaparral, the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, the Columbia Jester, the Harvard Lampoon, the Michi- gan Gargoyle, the California Pelican, the Minnesota Minnehaha, the Williams Pur- ple Cow, the Amherst Four Leaf Clover, the Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern, the Texas Coyote, the Princeton Tiger, etc., ete. To the editors of these publications, who are graduated this year, Junce extends best wishes for suce May they con- tinue to spread, in whatever field they labor, the gospel of good cheer. THOSE who have been wanting Bryan to dry up didn’t suspect that he would turn up with the drys. ~ FLOHRI— ‘Faith, if it’s a good thing for the Egyptians, why not for the Irish ? *