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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes the elaborate social and athletic machinery surrounding the Harvard-Yale football rivalry circa 1913. The main text humorously traces how the game's preparation ripples across society: Neidlinger practices the scrub line; Sally Abrahams cuts thousands of "Y" pennants; Aunt Hattie studies Percy Haughton's "Football for the Spectator" to avoid looking foolish; Nanook hunts polar bears in Alaska for coat materials; an Ohio pig is slaughtered for its hide; and coin flippers prepare for the kickoff toss. Young men at Princeton and Yale learn to "suffer and smile simultaneously." The top cartoon depicts a player's imagination while training—an absurdist fantasy of acrobatic collapse. The bottom illustrations show young women practicing exaggerated kicks, captioned "Practicing the art of infuriating the mob"—likely referring to cheering demonstrations or suffragette-inspired activism around the game. "I Wonder" is a satirical poem about a once-lavish young man now economizing, questioning whether he's reformed or merely saving for prom. The page mocks both collegiate pretension and how major sporting events mobilize entire institutions.

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Developing a football candidate’s imagination which falls between Fifty-ninth street. and the Battery in the month of February according to the figures of 1913. Or to use this activity in its own field, the ivestigator will also find that a Harvard cleven in its signal practice of any one year scored 398 touchdowns and fifty-two. field goals which don’t count. snow QO}! COURSE, the preparation of the players is only a minor part of the ull training of a big university. And so manifold are the ramifications of a Harvard-Yale game that it is all but im- possible to trace cach ripple of attendant activity to its sourc At New Haven Neidlinger is busily engaged in ripping the serub line to pic and down in Grand st, New York, Sally Abrahams. is cutting * out of white cloth so that Sol may stop the passerby in late Novem- d shout “Get your winning colors.” Since Sally has been in the business she has cut out something more than 6,000 “Y's and sewed almost as many on to the blue pennants. And so of course she doesn’t feel so sentimental about them as the boys in New Haven. But then, although she has made many “Y’s” she has never won any. str ND. while Neidlinger plunges and £2 Sally stitches, Aunt Hattie is giving over one afternoon a week to the study of Percy Haughton’s new book, “Football for the Spectator,” so that she will know enough not to be merely irritated when Uncle Harry leaps up in the middle of the third quarter and stands on his seat, Up in Alaska, Nanook is confined to his igloo bec polar bear bit him slightly while he was engaged in the task of providing the raw materials for the big coat which Emmeline is going to wear on the day of the game. It gets pretty sharp on top of the bowl in late October you know. Back in July a pig from Ohio was killed in the Chicago stockyards and squealed just like all the others because he had no realization that his hide would go march- ing on as Harvard swept down the field using sharp thrusts off tackle with an occasional forward pass. And some place in the ordinary pur- suits of commerce moves the twenty-five cent piece which is to turn slowly in the air while tens of thousands wait anxiously until Yale chooses to defend the West goal and Harvard kicks off. use Practicing the art of infuriating the mob 7 ND while all this goes on thousands 4% of Harvard under, uates are try- ing to learn rhythm so that they may stand —and wave—their colors on high—and on to victory. Princeton is practicing “Old ” in order that none of its pathetic values may he and young men at Yale are. experimenting’ with various devices whereby they may learn to suffer and smile simultaneously. Without this skill a moral victory is quite impossible. Five-finger exercise when there is no corkscrew tot I Wonder by Virginia Keck for weeks he’s worn a pal He walks where formerly he rode. His hair, of yore, close-cropped and trim, is now a bit too long. For lunch he used to eat a man-sized meal, but now, a sandwich is sufficient. No more does he match pennies by the hour or bet on games and boxing tourneys. His change, which used to go for this and that, he hoards, and scems close-fisted. Oh, why should he be altered so—this youth who once was lavish! Has he now found the error of his ways? Or is he saving up to take me to the Prom? wee lean look. Customer—Do you guarantee that this hair restorer is perfectly harmless? pose it will completely remove th of my hair? Clerk—Then we're going to give you another bottle—free.