Life, 1927-09-29 · page 12 of 38
Life — September 29, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top illustration:** Shows a class at a College of Pharmacy learning "Advanced Sandwich Making." This satirizes the perceived decline of higher education, suggesting colleges are teaching frivolous domestic skills rather than serious academics. **"Silly Idea" cartoon:** A woman tells a man not to owe anybody money, then walk straight in their eyes and tell them to go to hell. The humor satirizes impractical financial advice—suggesting debtors simply ignore creditors through sheer audacity. **"A Vassar Freshman Writes Home":** A letter from a student asking her parents for money, complaining about textbook costs and needing cash for "fudge parties"—satirizing the casual spending habits and financial irresponsibility of wealthy college students. **"The Midnight Oil":** A tired student studying late, likely illustrating academic struggle.
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THE CLASS IN ADVANCED SANDWICH MAKING AT THE COLLEGE OF PITARMACY. Silly Idea “T DON’T owe anybody, and now I can look every man straight in the eyes and tell him to go to the devil.” “What's the idea of doing that, if you don’t owe anybody?” “WAT BRANCH OF THE GAME ARE YOU GOING IN FoR?” LITERARY ‘i'M UNDECIDED, 1 DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO TAKE THE COURSE IN SHORT-STORY WRITING, OR THE ONE ON HOW TO TEACH SHORT-STORY WRITING. A Vassar Freshman Writes Home EAREST Momsy: I'm thrilled with it here al- ready and am awfully glad I de- cided on Vassar instead of Smith or Wellesley because the colors are pink and white and I was asking a girl I know who is a sophomore this year and she said it's much cheaper to telephone to New Haven from here than from Wellesley or Smith and she knows because she flunked out of both she ss Really she’s a scream and has t ‘fully sweet and what do you suppose? The first night I was here who should sud- denly appear but Tommy Rinse! He brought that odd sister who is a freshman here this year, too, which makes it sort of awkward because somehow we never got on although it isn’t my fault because I have al- ways tried to be nice to her. It is awfully expensive here, you seem to need mon ; the time and everybody dresses aw- fully well. I honestly feel awfully tackie and would like to get a few simple things which you can get in Poughkeepsie really very reasonable. If you could work Dad for about five hundred dollars I might get up the courage to appear in public by the time we have to go to recitations. You need a lot of ready cash be- cause you have to give fudge par- ties and things which are really y for som loads of fun because everybody sort her and smokes in some- body's room which I think is per- fectly all right only some of the girls produce gin which I think is going rather far, don’t you? Oh, I nearly forgot—I need about fifteen dollars for text books which are frightfully expensive even when you get them second hand which is far the best way to get them because they are all marked up with the answers to things you get asked in class, which is sort of a help. Please haste to get round Popsy for that five hundred dollars so you won't be ashamed of your Affectionate daughter, Mopsy. THE MIDNIGHT OIL comicbooks.co m