Judge — May 24, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a 12-panel comic strip titled "Where there's a will there's a way," credited to R.M. Ring from Dartmouth '27. The narrative follows a man's persistent attempts to win over a woman's affections. The sequence shows him proposing marriage (panel 1), being rejected repeatedly, and attempting increasingly desperate romantic gestures—including elaborate gifts, public displays, and seemingly magical interventions. The strip satirizes both courtship persistence and the notion that sheer determination can overcome romantic rejection. The humor derives from the man's refusal to accept "no" and his escalating, absurd methods. It reflects early 20th-century attitudes about male persistence in romance, presented here as comedic rather than problematic.