Judge, 1915-06-19 · page 5 of 24
Judge — June 19, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes American college culture and its commercialization. The top cartoon shows students displaying their "vociferous apparel"—expensive clothing worn as status symbols. The text mocks how college boys pride themselves on fashionable dress regardless of actual learning. The middle illustration titled "A NEW BREED—THE COLLAR-BUTTON RETRIEVER" depicts a student searching under a dresser, humorously suggesting college boys are preoccupied with trivial matters like lost clothing rather than serious education. The main "College" section satirizes how institutions teach genteel manners and spending habits rather than genuine knowledge. It jokes that college teaches boys to spend money recklessly (nine dollars weekly) and perform sophistication around women—skills of dubious value. The photograph captioned "SHE NEARLY CAUGHT ME!" appears to show a student hiding from a woman, reinforcing the satirical theme of frivolous college social behavior.
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ee a we = ee ee ee Nee — agri td lla Ch tale aE hid Th sg gM Eernneiinss? Sagem Sindh? Si guadt A Ragin Sint saa lama "east Deana ang? ie A NEW BREED—THE COLLAR-BUTTON RETRIEVER College ILLEGE is a place where a youth discovers that the moon is not made of green cheese and learns to be- lieve that the World is waiting forhim. Itis—withan ax. In college a boy learns to be a perfect gentleman in the art of spending money. The sophomore can make a five-hundred-dollar contribution from home look like a collar button. And in college a fellow learns how to make money later—nine dollars a week, if the Boss is patient. One of the grandest features of the American College is that utter ease of Manner in the presence of Peaches which it inculcates; the college-trained young man can be perfectly at home in the narrow confines of an auto- mobile with any number of chorus ladies. Every gentle- man ought to be able to do this. The wearing of a fantastic line of incoherent but vociferous apparel is something which the college boy prides himself upon— no matter how his folks feel about it. This is valuable training. The ability to display a Roll and to bet heavily on his Alma Mater is one of the niceties in which the college youth becomes proficient. Son blows it if he wins. Father loses, anyhow. There is much language training in College. A very choice line of pic- turesque drool in the way of Slang is a most important part of one’s education. We had nearly neglected to mention the inestimable advantage of personal contact with one’s professors. One is associated with men of masterful cali- ber, who are so Large and Strong and Broad that they are receiving fifteen hundred dollars a year to train your Boy for Life. Figure it out yourself. At the reunion of your own class this June, get up and say something ought to be done about it. —Fred Ladd. SHE NEARLY CAUGHT ME! comicbooks.com