Judge, 1922-04-15 · page 23 of 36
Judge — April 15, 1922 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This page collects humorous observations about college life and professors, presented through poems, jokes, and illustrations. The satire targets academic pretension and student behavior. **Key targets:** - **Professors**: Mocked as pompous yet incompetent—described as "dizzy," bald or balding ("seldom any thatch upon the dome"), wearing "sideburns and black goggles," and using unnecessarily complex language to seem impressive while lacking actual substance. - **Students**: Portrayed as lazy and manipulative (one learns to ask for money "in such a way that it seems an honor"), or sexually precocious (the grandmother joke implies the student was seen with an older woman). - **Adolescent braggadocio**: The bottom cartoon mocks children competing over who can swear better, suggesting college students display similarly immature competitiveness. The page's subtitle—"Irrepressible, Joyous, Irresponsible"—encapsulates the era's stereotype of college life as frivolous and character-building institutions as failures.
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With th Irrepressible, —Annapolis Log. PROFESSORS I HAVEN'T any love for my profes- sors, they seem a rather dizzy crowd to me; Not one of all the lot I’ve ever met with Was nearly what he thought himself to be. They run mostly to sideburns and black goggles, They’ve seldom any thatch upon the dome; Their language is excessive when they | try to be impressive, And they lead a chap to think there’s no one home. —Oregon Columbiad. Joyous, WONDERFUL! Registrar—Mr. Brown, you have over-cut French. Why do you go to New York so often? Stude—Why—I—er— go to see my grandmother. “Do you mean the one I saw you with last Saturday? Wonderful how these old women get around nowa- days!"—Yale Record. POLISH “What did your son learn at col- lege?” “Well, sir, he can ask for money in such a way that it seems an honor to give it to him.”—Virginia Reel. THE ONE THING I like ’em short, I like ’em tall, I like ’em lovin’, Or not at all. —Hamilton Royal Gaboon. College Wits Irresponsible A Study in Evolution—Old Bean. —Stanford Chaparral. SOMETHING TO BLOW ABOUT A MAN may very modest be And play a violin Or thumb with skill of high degree A tuneful mandolin. At singing he may leave behind The ordinary man And still be of that humble kind That boast not when they can. But yet it has been ever so As far as I have known That everyone has had to blow To play a saxophone. —Cornell Widow. a caw | Bill—I can swear as well as my big brother. Jim—Pooh! That's nothing! Hopkins Black and Blue Jay. I can swear as well as my big sister—Johns