Judge, 1932-03-19 · page 13 of 36
Judge — March 19, 1932 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Explaining This Judge Magazine Page This page from Judge presents satirical "News from the Colleges"—humorous jabs at American universities circa the 1920s. The top cartoon mocks a pompous judge lecturing three men to "keep real still now, and maybe you'll see it move"—suggesting the judge himself is slow-witted or immobile, a common satire on judicial pretension. The college news items ridicule academic absurdities: University of Chicago banning coeds from smoking and attending Democratic conventions; Yale's economics professor proposing the ridiculous solution of putting train berths in buses to fix railroad finances; Harvard's President Lowell vetoing aid for "starving fathers of students" (implying wealthy institutions' misplaced priorities). The lower cartoon shows a "Salesman" visiting someone's home, asking to see "your mother"—likely a traveling salesman joke, a stock comedic figure of the era. The right cartoon depicts someone presenting a "hot pastromi sandwich" as an exotic import, satirizing pretentious fine dining or possibly ethnic food stereotypes. These collectively mock collegiate bureaucracy, academic pomposity, and institutional absurdity through exaggeration.
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p real still x, and maybe you'll see it move!” JUDGE NEWS FROM THE COLLEGES Pomerat rules for the University of Chicago’s Summer School I recently been announced. Co-eds « forbidden to smoke in dormitory rooms, stay out after twelve at night, and attend the Democratic Conven- tion, “Bing” Cawsby, centre-ficlder on the Detroit University baseball team, is no longer a holdout, having come to terms with the coach this week. Sarsmax—Good morning. Princteon athletic officials are de- nouncing the new rules to make foot- an attempt to be sarcastic at the expense of the Prince- ton football team. Professor Z. Z. Brunch of the Yale Economics Department, has formu- i a plan to end the financial diffi- culties of the railroads. The profes- sor’s plan is to put upper berths in busses. May I see your mother, please? ww “Sire, I bring you a great delicacy from across the sea; a hot pastromi sandwich,” Assistant I an Raynolds of Cor- nell, who was erly a magazi editor, sent out some rejection parents last week. President Lowell of Harvard, re- cently vetoed a plan to use part of the University Endowment Fund for the relief of starving fathers of students. Hilary Budge of the University of Iowa, was awarded the University Prize of $1000 for the best four-line poem written by a track candidate. —Anticr SILVERBLATT comicbooks.com