Life, 1924-06-05 · page 43 of 48
Life — June 5, 1924 — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **satirical commentary on college life** alongside a toothpaste advertisement. ## The Cartoon/Editorial Content: The main piece is a mock "valedictorian speech" that uses ironic understatement to critique university conditions. The speaker ostensibly praises the institution while actually highlighting its problems: broken benches, poor maintenance ("the curator of grounds and buildings could do would be to repair the benches"), and faculty paid so little they work "without hope of any but spiritual reward." The humor relies on the contrast between formal farewell speech conventions and the speaker's barely-concealed complaints about cost-cutting and neglect. ## The Small Cartoon: The bottom illustration references price inflation, captioning a prehistoric couple with "My dear, the price of diplodocus has gone up again"—a joke about how even ancient, long-extinct things cost more, satirizing general economic inflation. ## Context: This reflects post-WWI era concerns about rising college costs and institutional maintenance, packaged as humorous undergraduate complaints.
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If the Valedictorian Really Spoke His Mind Mx. Presienr, tlemen : and Ladies and Gen Our class has now come to the end of its college course, and it has fallen to me to bid our official farewell. In leaving this dear old place where we have lived for four long years—some f us longer than that—we should be clict indeed did we fai the U heritage, however slight, of our deep hopes for her future to render to ersity a betterment, and the betterment of those who come after us. s I look at the towering elms that have cast their shadows over so many thousands of undergraduates, I am re- minded of the fact that just about the hest thing the curator of grounds and buildings could do would be to repair the Lane ai for lights benches along Lovers’ Pete's sake therefrom The old strong ap- peal for us, but it will have an even remove the electric town has its stronger appeal for our successors if the New hep to themselves and visit it oftener and make quicker deliveries. During our residence here we have seen many kinds of men arrive as fresh men, and develop, by the time they reached the senior class, into true sons of Alma Mater; this could be made even more certain by the adoption of bell-bottom trousers as standard, We have heard a good deal about lowering the cost of college educations, York tailors will get a little our and we understand our trustees are con- cerned over the means of realizing this ideal; it is really a simple matter start by reducing fur coat by breeding raccoons under University prices, supervision And men, wor! w the faculty, those grand old ing without hope of any but spiritual reward, to whose efforts we owe every low mark we ever got, and to whom we turn now in our final ges- ture of farewell, for them we leave this last message Imiration and respect, IN THE STONE AGE “MY DEAR, THE PRICE OF DIPLODO- CUS HAS CONE UP AGAIN,” Péle-Méle (Paris). The meals of yesteryear HE FOOD we eat has a great ct upon the condition of our teeth. But it is even more definitely responsible for the trouble that some of us have with our gums, For this soft, creamy food of civil- ization, eaten ov a long period of time, and en in haste, has robbed the gums of the stimu- lation, of the work and massage, which coarse food and slow tion should give. As a result, we are experiencing trouble with our gums. Even teeth aten too ¢ tiea- —what have they done to your teeth and your gums? which have been well preserved by good care not immur nd frequent cleaning are e from troubles due to a weakened gum structure. Does your toothbrush “show pin! any people find that their gums are r. They report to their that their gums have a te bleed, And the dentist will that this appearance o brush” is a sign that their gums need stimulation and exerci How Ipana Tooth Paste stimulates your gums More than three thousand dentists, in cases of this kind, now recom- mend Ipana Tooth Paste and pre- scribe it totheir patients, In stubborn cases of bleeding gums, many dentists direct the regu um massage with Ipana qfler ar cleaning with the brush. or one of the important ingre- dients of Ipana is ziratol—an anti- septic and hemostatic well known to the profession the country over. It is used to allay the bl of the wound after extraction, and to help IPANA TOOTH PAST —made by the makers of Sal Hepatica E Lf restore to the gums their normal to- nicity. The presence of ziratol give Ipana the power f bleedir firm, sound, healthy gum tissue. Try a tube of Ipana today f they hav id in the healing zums, and tohelp to build If your gums are tende jency to be soft or to bleed, go to th store today and buy your first tube of Ipana, Before you have finished u you cannot fail to note the differenc mu will be delighted with its grit-fr . its delicious flavor A trial tube, enough ten days, will be V you will forward cv 42RectorStreet, NewYork, N.Y. Kindly send trial tube of IPANA TOOTH PASTE without charge - tion on my part. Name. Address. City.. State. pt.N6 ' ' ' comicbooks.com