Life — October 21, 1909 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Comparative College Boys This page satirizes wealthy college students at elite institutions (Yale, Harvard, Princeton). The article criticizes how these boys receive financial support despite poor academic performance, contrasting them with scholarship students who must work harder. The top cartoon shows privileged boys at leisure ("A watched pot never boils"), contrasting their idle behavior with the text's argument that they're "not made to work." The lower illustration ("Portrait of Her Late Husband: Take My Advice and Don't") appears to mock a woman receiving counsel, likely satirizing social pretension or marriage dynamics among the upper classes. The "Nice Question" section debates whether a new Christian Science Monitor column is "verse" or "jokes"—questioning whether it's serious literature or satire itself.