Judge, 1923-10-13 · page 12 of 36
Judge — October 13, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon:** A father confronts his daughter about dancing all night with "neuritis." The joke relies on a misunderstanding: the father thinks "neuritis" (nerve inflammation) is a person's name, implying his daughter danced with someone all evening. The satire mocks both paternal concern over courtship and the absurdity of the mix-up. **"Method of Education" Article:** This satirical piece by Cyril B. Egan critiques American colleges' obsession with football. The author argues colleges prioritize athletics over academics—proposing a darkly comic "solution": make football mandatory and condition academic study on football proficiency. Students would fail Sanskrit or calculus if they underperform in "the pigskin." The satire attacks how institutional prestige depends on winning teams rather than scholarly excellence. **Bottom Cartoon:** A domestic servant announces she's a cook, not a "bathin' beauty"—likely rejecting assumptions about her appearance or role, asserting professional identity. These pieces satirize early 20th-century American education priorities and social class assumptions.
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os —--~- oe a Father—My dear girl, you can’t dance all night with neuritis. “Why, father, how can you say that? I never even met him!” Method of Education 5,642,021 recreational part of the curriculum? If colleges are to maintain raison d'étre, if salaries are to be paid and students Er us be honest. fed—good football must be played. These are axioms no one can confute: Compulsory Rugby for all will insure A college is as great as its football team; this happy desideratum. A university varies as its ’varsity. Make pursuit of other studies con- Why not put football in its proper tingent on proficiency with the pigskin. place, then, as a major study; and move“ *'the young student will say, Latin, Greek and mathematics into the — tears of humiliation in his eyes,“T sha‘n’t by Cyril B. Egan Gi, be allowed to play on the Sanskrit team: I flunked in puntin: “Curse the coach,” the ardent young mathematician will ery; “he gave me 59% in tackling, and I sha’n't. be per- mitted to play differential calculus for the rest of the season!” And the coach will say to his charges: “If you boys fail to average 100 per cent. in your Thanksgiving gridiron examina- i not a man of you shall make the anical excursion this coming spring!” By this rearrangement of the curricn- lum, everything will be put in its proper es will be made an incentive to and football will be made an in- centive to study. The college turnstiles will click at a i the college professor. will 1 like a bricklay play and no work will make Jack rack scholar. What could be sweeter? ree A Burglar’s Lament by Dixie Wilson FOLLOWED a lady upstairs Oh, my! I peeped in the crack of her door! only a burglar dares I counted the jewels she wore! I watched her discreetly disrobe for the night, I watched her to bed as she put out the light, But just as I sized up the stuff I could steal— T had to go home! Twas the end of the reel! “IT gives notice, ma’am! I’m no bathin’ beauty, I’m a cook!” 10 comicbooks.com