Judge — December 1936 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Vv NOW THAT the sound of the dull stupid voices has abated it is pos sible to reflect upon the late political campaign and examine such particular asses as ade the pre-election months obnoxious. Pre-eminent among such nu were the sances various collegiate butfoons who made spectacles of them. With a few tions the college undergraduate is a hor selves. honorable excep- rendous sight. He is the gentleman who ally reaches the senior year in his in. stitution to find that “If poem and Ging At the age of nineteen or twen ty he is so anxious to bend his shapely arrowcollared neck for the yoke that he practically pleads with the authorities to peonize him year was a statement by an undergrad. 1s his favorite er Rogers his favorite actress. Among the peaks of last uate editorial board thanking the presi- dent of the university for placing their magazine control. It seemed that this made them extremely under faculty happy probably have meant more to them than their diplomas A short stay in the stocks would REASONS FOR ANGER BY KYLE CRICHTON Just why the college young (the gen. crality of them; not the small courageous groups wh give the universities any slight life they may possess), just: why they are more reactionary in their sopho. more year than a Polish peasant is at i We s about the re- belliousness of youth only to find that death has always been beyond me continue to have notio in any college poll the results are John Pierpont Morgan, 213; Andrew Mellon, 196; Albert Einstein, xene Stratton Porter, 948. Occasionally there is a touch of ex- citement on a campus, as when a group of Harvard gentlemen with the customary stable boy haircuts ridicule a peace demonstration, but as a general thing the young men are striving with desperation to get themselves in a place where they will have an $18 job for life. If because of their father’s connections "Why no. Nobody here was calling Los Angeles!” they achieve a higher status, they may be seen from now until eternity coming in from Bronxville on the commuters’ train in the morning laboriously reading their New York deavoring not to notice correspondingly Herald-Tribunes, and en. vapid groups of slightly lower social standi & getting on at Fleetwood or M Vernon, At the graduation age of twen- ty-one instead of hopping a cattle boat for Shanghai or seducing a chorus girl or slapping a cop, they are thinking ten derly of insurance and a suburban home and an existence of such tepidity that no jury in the world would convict a sub- urban wife who greets the homecoming father with a cleaver instead of a kiss. President Hutchins of the University of Chicago has been writing lately on meth. I'm afraid he is wasting his time if his in. the necessity of changing the ods of higher education but comicbooks.com