Life, 1926-09-30 · page 15 of 36
Life — September 30, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page presents satirical commentary on college life, circa early 20th century. **"The Leal"** (top left): A Dorothy Parker poem about friendship's impermanence—friends disappoint, but one should expect it philosophically. **"The Freshman's Tribulations"**: A humorous list of college hazing rituals and social rules a new student must endure—including drinking stunts, mandatory dating, attending coed institutions for propriety, wearing prescribed clothing, and consuming only approved publications like *Sporting Stories*. **"Give Him Time" / "The National Habit"**: A comic dialogue about lending money to a broke friend ("old chap"), playing on the period's casual attitude toward debt and the recurring theme of financial irresponsibility. The cartoons satirize both parental anxiety about college life and freshman vulnerability to peer pressure and tradition.
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The Leal THe friends I made have slipped ind strayed, And who's the one that cares? A trifling lot and best forgot— And that’s my tale, and theirs. Then if my friendships break and nd, There's little need to ery The while I know that every foe Is fuithful till I die. Dorothy Parker. The Freshman’s Tribulations } FE, has to learn to gulp stuff that calls itself gin out of a flask whose cap keeps hitting him in the nose. He must home to confine all his letters as for money. rr permitted to go to bed before three in the morning. He is never allowed to pass a single one of his courses. He must pawn his fur coat and other valuables immediately upon en- tering college He can dance with no one except skinny-shanked girls, the bottoms of whose dresses are well above their garters He must invariably be the butt of all dialogues between “Soph” and “Fros! He must “go out” for every team, so that Farmer Corntossle can : “My boy writes he cleaned up in center field terday, which is purty lucky ‘cause ourn suttinly needs mowin It is almost obligatory that he at- tend ; so that he may be in sophisticated convers girl of his « He has to dress in the most out- kind. He must confine his reading solely to Snoppy Stories and La Vie Pari- siennc known to man- He must constantly wear in his mouth a bulldog pipe with a bow] the size of a water pitcher. He must spend most of his eve- nings hanging around stage doors. In short, he must model his life upon the inflexible pattern set for every freshman by the editors of professionally collegiate humorous magazines. Tip Bliss. caer TRICE Co-ed Freshman; wirre CAN 1 WOMEN? Ditto Sophomore: wave You TRIED THE GARDEN OF E The National Habit OLD BANDIT: Stick ‘em up, Mister. Give us yer dough! Untimate Consumer: Tell you what; I'll give you ten dollars now, and five a week. FIND THE DEAN Give Him Time “LTELLO, old chap—have you forgotten that ten bucks you borrowed ?” “Why, no—I hadn’t—how carcless of me!” Fond Mother: Goon-ny, Bonny, AND REMEMBER TO * WARMLY AT COLLEGE. 1 DON’T WANT YOU TO CATCH FRATERNITY GRIPPE. DRESS THAT comicbooks.com