The Wasp — 1895 — page 1008: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes the **Homo Collegiate** (college student), presenting it as a species worthy of natural study. The text mocks college students' pretentious behavior—their adoption of football culture, their visits to theaters instead of churches when the *Homo Collegiate* was alive, and their general pomposity. The top cartoon shows a man with a megaphone confronting what appears to be Native Americans, likely satirizing how college students adopted and performed "savage" stereotypes. The lower illustration depicts "**Rejoicing of Rahrahs**"—a mocking term for enthusiastic college sports fans engaged in rowdy celebration. The page combines evolutionary/scientific rhetoric (as suggested by "natural history") with social commentary, treating collegiate culture as an amusing, vain phenomenon worthy of anthropological ridicule.