| Show I. I Opinions i Elsewhere i z This College Life The last five years has seen the production of numerous photoplays and the publication of many books Docks which are supposed to portray college life The unwary public consumes these with various feelings feelings feel feel- feel I ings and murmurs My aint college grand An analysis which was made recently divides the methods of portraying college life fe into three main groups the college picture the the college magazine and the college book Whilst the means employed are different yet the idea behind them all seems to be the same viz to misrepresent or exaggerate the actual According to college pictures all students reside at fraternities or sororities There is no such thing as a lecture room All profs look like fossils of primitive primates The Dean usually has a pretty daughter who loves the hero The stadium must without exception be at least twice as large as the campus The hero is kept out of the Great Game by some accident or other but always manages to get in at the last quarter and beat the rivals a minute before the blows by a The scene usually ends with a up close-up of the hero kissing the Deans Dean's daughter while the Dean himself looks on benevolently In the college magazine the jokes are mostly m musty st or insinuating The password is Bootleg The cartoons show the men wrapped up in raccoons and the women appear to be all neck On the average the college book is better than the other two forms More is usually seen of student student student stu stu- dent life But even so the hero is always a marvellous marvellous marvellous marvel marvel- lous rugby player or sprinter The Tho last chapter al always always always al- al ways makes things come out right for the hero and everybody is happy happ And we simply detest happy endings McGILL DAILY |
