Judge, 1927-01-22 · page 7 of 36
Judge — January 22, 1927 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page 5 This page satirizes college life through humor and social commentary. The "Collegiate Maxims" mock pretentious student attitudes about campus superiority. The top cartoons show students celebrating loudly ("Hurrah! Hurrah!" and "Rickety Rax"), depicting typical boisterous college behavior. The middle panel—showing newlyweds in separate beds with chaos above—jokes that marriage disrupts the carefree college lifestyle. "The Sigh" poem mocks students who squandered opportunities, regretting their college years. The car accident cartoon satirizes reckless driving, showing a chauffeur picking up a girl while hitting a pedestrian simultaneously—commenting on dangerous behavior and moral carelessness among the wealthy. The dialogue about "Follies" as a chorus course is simple wordplay humor. Overall, the page criticizes college excess, poor judgment, and moral lapses among privileged youth through exaggerated scenarios and witty text.
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| Collegiate Maxims It’s better to be right half than | President. \ Where there’s smoke there’s a co-ed. | Be sure you're tight then go ahead } to the dance. J\ | Be it ever so jumbled there’s no ‘‘ | | place like your room. | | God bless our foam. | Be it ever so humbug there’s no | place like a college. Thoughts of a College Boy 4 THEY MARRIED EACH OTHER, SO---- (Continued on page 36) SSS n If a little knowledge is a dangerous 1) \\ thing strait-jackets would be the \ fl ] ia WHAT ELSE COULD THEY EXPECT ? The cheer leaders. | style in most colleges. The Sigh I never had a single chance. I yearned and burned for knowl- edge. But life locked ev’ry truth from me— Alas! I went to college. Rhea The real college cheer is the check from home. Fae Sixth Stew—What chorus ya’ | takin’? % | Seventh Stew—Follies. | ——_—- Sas Eighth Stew—He didn’t say chorus “Havelock Sassoon is good—look at him pick up a girl and nick a —he said course. pedestrian at the same time.” Seventh Stew—Oh—fish! comicbooks.com