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Puck, v. 57, no. 1477

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The June proposition

The June proposition

A college student, wearing cap and gown for graduation, offers to take the world off the shoulders of Atlas. Caption: Class of ’05 — I’ll relieve you of that now, Atlas, old man.

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The “June Graduate” and his or her pretentious ambitions to immediately take on the world and all its challenges was an annual staple of editorial cartoons of the day, such as in this June 1905 cover drawing. The inevitable June cartoon featured the cap-and-gown generic character, joining the ranks of cartoon stereotypes like the Emancipated Women, the harried suburbanite, and an assortment of ethnic “types.”

The struggle of the Slav

The struggle of the Slav

A Russian man stands on a rowboat, using an axe labeled “Nat’l Assembly” to battle an octopus labeled “Bureaucracy.” The octopus wears a crown and royal robe, and its tentacles are labeled “Graft, Exile, Oppressive Taxation, Despotism, Religious Intolerance, Cossackism, Incompetence, [and] Greed.”

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In cartoonist J. S. Pughe’s centerspread Puck cartoon, the embattled man is beset by many identified dangers, all parts of the same autocratic monster. The caption calls him a Slav, where it might have called him a Russian just as easily; and the crown and “Cossack” reference suggest that Russia, and not the Slavic lands and peoples, were the object of attention.