Judge, 1922-05-06 · page 14 of 36
Judge — May 6, 1922 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes college students' romantic behavior and examination standards. The image shows a male student at a desk (lower portion) being observed by a jury of fashionably dressed women in a gallery above—literally staging his romantic life for judgment. The accompanying poem mockingly lists reasons for dating: the student went with different women solely based on whether they would or wouldn't allow kissing. The "ideal exam" questions below parody both frivolous 1920s culture (the Folies Bergère nightclub, boxer Babe Ruth, "flappers") and student social obsessions. The satire targets college men's shallow romantic motivations and the era's casual attitude toward dating and physical intimacy. The "grand jury" of women judges this behavior, inverting typical power dynamics—women become the evaluators of male conduct rather than passive objects of pursuit. This reflects post-WWI attitudes about changing gender relations and youth culture in the 1920s.
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Drawn by BE. M. StULTs, Carnegie Tech. CHEAP HUMOR By F. O. Anderson, Wesleyan (Middle- town) '24 AM Cheap Humor Whenever I speak of stingy Jews or fighting Irishmen, thousands of cheap peo- ple chuckle gleefully. When I suggest that ery wife w 8 for her late-returning husband with a roll- ing pin, they cackle delightedly When I hint that the great aim of married man’s life to kill, i his mother-in-law, they. guifaw When I hint that a college man is never happy except when kissing a girl or drink ing, or both, they roar with laughter. When I speak of bottles of home brew exploding because of the extra raisin, they hold their sides. I have only to mention th onion, red flannels, Swiss che suspenders, cootie, cro of the pants, and ti of merriment. I am Cheap Humor. words: Ford, . Hoboken, , pickle, seat i into deadly fits A Grand Jury. WAITER! WAITER! AN IDEAL EXAM EATING in dining cars e’er reminds us, By Malcolm H. Oettinger, Harvard '22 4 That if we'd have our meals sublim We must departing, leave behind us, 1. (a) Folies Bergere; (b) Pre Catalan; Something more than one thin dime (c) three other places where you ean get it Tom Carskadon, Stanford *22. 2. Ide fy 2 differentiate between Babe Ruth an Tour; John Barleycorn Reasons and John Bs erymore; Ce s Clemenceau let n kiss her ° bs I went with Helen beeause she wouldn't . What is a flapper let_ me kiss her » Co t the Po Grounds and the I stopped with Louise beeause she Witter . would let me kiss her 6. Define the following terms: bimbo, I stopped going with Helen because she gumbbell. oiled, upetane, aecher wouldn't let me kiss her 7. Deseribe in detail Put and Take. (Dia- Rob t Gray Hopkins, } grams 8. Discuss recent tendencies in the price a possible cause for - of Cincinnati Very Apt “What line of poetry suggests our modern dane comic weekly, in- The stag at eve had drunk his fill. cluding two of its artists in addition to PF. Hamilton Thornton, St. Louis U. "22. Orson Lowell f the Camel Walk.