Life, 1927-06-02 · page 28 of 46
Life — June 2, 1927 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes 1920s college culture and young adult life. **The main article** mocks a McGuffus University alumnus who brags about attending college but admits he never actually visited campus, took an "air course" via radio broadcast, and learned nothing meaningful—claiming college value lies only in "associations," not education. The humor targets the emptiness of collegiate pretension. **The stereoscopic cartoon** (top) shows a domestic scene captioned "Heavens! My wife!"—likely a visual gag implying either infidelity or marital shock, typical of period humor. **"Voices of the Night"** presents flirtatious dialogue between young couples, mocking their repetitive romantic clichés ("Am I the first girl you've ever kissed?" etc.). **"So It Goes"** satirizes affluent youth culture, reducing their possessions and social activities (fountain pens, flasks, compacts, cigarette lighters, cocktail parties) to meaningless consumption and constant replacement—a critique of materialistic excess during the prosperous 1920s.
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2 bea § {) Y 3} Sa a OZ E n C1I0O49NNOA 40 LNAWSSAWY ONY NOILUIJIsIGa SHL 40d “HEAVENS! MY WIFE!" The Air College S, I'm a college man—good old McGoofus University, Class of '26. Some day I'm going to run up to the old 7 and see what it looks like. No, I've r been there. I took the air course, broad- cast’ from W) her wanted ly—Station F, but some of the boys who prepped with me at WOR were en- rolling at McGoofus, so I decided to stick with them, There's nothing like the memories of the good old days you spend at college. It's something that stays with you all your life. I remember the fun I had in my Freshman year. I we ing a course in Advanced mbryology and Applicd Palwontol- ogy under Professor Fer- guson—you've heard of him, of course. Some of my class- mates in the neighborhood and I used to have hot discus- sions as to what he looked like; I claimed that he “G'-BY, OLD GIRL,..BLUB..,BLUB.. had red hair and some of the fellows insisted that he was bald. But how we used to cut up in his class! It makes me chuckle now to think of how, in the midst of one of his lec- tures, I would twist the dial and switch on the Happiness Boys or Ben Bernie's Orchestra. I don’t remember much now about Embryology and Palwontology. I always say it isn’t so much what you learn at college that counts; it’s the associations. N.L. UBURBANIT “Came the law lament— +I GRADUATED.” Voices of the Night “AM I the first girl you've ever A kissed?” “ee “Stop now!” 8 “You are wonderful!” ** # “Please—just one more.” ee # you suppose the car will start eee “Gosh! I just know I look a sight!" “2 * “Why should 1?” ** © “Isn't it a marvelous night?” #2 * M. E. B. So It Goes HAT with foun- tain pens, flasks, compacts, lip _ sticks, a> cigarette lighters and eet cocktail parties, life is just one refill after am other. comicbooks.com