Life, 1926-09-30 · page 5 of 36
Life — September 30, 1926 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a college-themed humor issue. The content includes: **"One-Way Vision"** cartoon: Shows figures with luggage, captioned about "sticking out your hand" to flag down a car—likely satirizing freshman hitchhiking. **"Synthesis"** joke: A professor and student exchange about gin in chemistry class, poking fun at Prohibition-era college drinking despite legal restrictions. **"The Crime of Crimes"** cartoon: Depicts a confrontation between a mother and son (Percy) over correspondence school lesson sheets with "ugly names and ridiculous drawings." Percy claims he's "just being hazed"—satirizing hazing practices and students' excuses for misbehavior. The overall page mocks typical freshman experiences: travel mishaps, alcohol consumption during Prohibition, and dormitory pranks. The humor targets both student behavior and parental concern about college life.
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Amici I" the friends you make in college that you keep your whole life long; It’s the friendships formed in college that are per- manent and strong And that sentiment to-day is just as accurate and true As when I chummed with Whatsisname in 1892. Your mother is your mother and your uncle is your aunt (Of course he really isn’t—but the phrase gives you the slant )— Relations are relations, but your friends, thank God, you pick! As I used to say to Whozisnow the year we were so thick. Commencement Night and Amici—two memories ever green! One-Way Vision The night of nights!) The song of songs! The moon- light opaline! Back through the years I look and feel the old affections stir. Friends of my youth! I wish I could remember who they were! “STICK OUT YOUR HAND, ETHEL, WE'RE COMING TO A cor? Synthesis ROFESSOR: Well, sir, have you any good reason why I shouldn’t flunk you in Chemistry? Srupent: Yes, sir—just take a snort of this gin that I made last night. The Crime of Crimes Baron Ireland. MUSSOLINI has designed standard dresses for the “ HAT'S the matter with you? You look guilty.” 4"* women of Italy ceping with his ideas of mod- “Iam; I knew I'd give myself away. I've just esty. If he can make the women wear them he deserves driven five hundred and one miles without changing my to be a world dictator. oil.” Mother: wuy, PERCY, WHAT STRANGE-LOOKING LESsso SPONDENCE SCHOOL—CALLING YOU ALL KINDS OF UGLY > RIDICULOUS WITH A LOT OF SILLY DRAWIN Percy: ou, THAT'S NOTHING, MOTHER. I’M JUST HAZED. comicbooks.com