Judge, 1931-05-02 · page 12 of 36
Judge — May 2, 1931 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Satire of College Athletic Recruitment This page satirizes college athletics' increasingly commercialized recruiting practices, presented as if universities were trading academic faculty like baseball players. **The Main Cartoon** (top): Shows a stern figure (likely a college administrator) scolding someone about staying out late—a commentary on loose discipline. **"Big League Methods"**: Mocks how colleges now "trade" professors between institutions. The text describes absurd exchanges: Illinois trades lecturer Hazlitt to Missouri for "two rookie instructors, a dean of men, and an assistant in Physics"—treating education like professional sports drafts. Yale is asking waivers on "Bingo" Phillips, a rhetorician. **The Lower Cartoon**: Appears unrelated socially insensitive humor about card games and racial stereotypes (text mentions "black ones"). **"Buck Fever"**: A brief quip about inflation and police corruption—the dollar's value increased but remains elusive, and people mistakenly believed cops were lazy. The satire critiques how higher education had adopted big-business methods, commodifying faculty and turning academia into a competitive market resembling professional baseball.
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JUDGE a > will have him on the roster S| onext season. “Pie-face” Gregory Mar tin, who failed to stand the gaff with Princeton, after a brilliant Paleontology record in the Southern 6 will te shipped to Grand .N.D., in ex change fo care’ t in Geol ogy, a Fre an option on “Bugs” Flick, noted Shelley man in the Northwestern league. Cornell, build ing up a strong German department, has rd Tompkins, Associate Professor cuse in exchange for Herr Laubermann, who has been burning them up in the Syracuse dis trict. Cotes, which has been slipping y from the top of the first division has made a ble deal. Mur Nichols, star anthropologist, is leaving next sea son for Rice Institute, whieh is send ing three psychologists to the metropolis Wellesley is taking no recruits this year though it holds options on several rook ies in Maryland and G Mino league representatives objected, as usual to the forced draft of recruits, but th majors hold the high cards, and the out look seems unchanged. —Joux R. Swarw Buck Fever dollar's puchasing power has increased during the past two years—and so has its elusiveness. And to think that all of this time we were led to believe that a cop was a fel low who slept on the job. “Out late again, ch. Well, just for that you go to bed without any breakfast!” Big League Methods A the annual meeting of the National 2 Collegiate Leagues, today, particularly nong the colleges of the Junior Cir- Hazlitt, star lecturer for Illinois, as sent to Missouri, traded for two rookie instructors, a dean of men, and ant in Physics. Hazlitt had a .792 average last y d while Iinois used him constantly, it is rumored that his voice may not last another full sea- son, Simkins, a promising recruit from the bush-le: es, comes to Ha a fine record in the Pacific whether he can stand the major-league pace is yet to be scen. Waivers have been asked by Yale on “Bingo” Phillips, an rhetorician, “Now, let’s see—clubs are the black ones with the three and it is understood that Pasadena Jun- little jiggers—aren’t they?” 10 comicbooks.com