New Mag Tells How to Be Collegiate

Well they may be wearing Donald Duck pajamas at Princeton, but they aren't doing it in Cambridge--at least not according to "College" magazine, a just-published little periodical that boldly claims to be the "only national collegiate journal in the country."

Loaded with all kinds of helpful and interesting advice for all its thousands of style-conscious readers ("Our magazine is mailed free to almost every fraternity and sorority in the United States"), "Colleges" seems to have acquired a private wire to J. Press & Co.

For the editors are divulging in their very first issue all kinds of hot Cantabrigian fashion tips for the benefit of their nation-wide audience. "From Harvard we find a continued preference for conservatism," they proclaim.

Norse Moccasins

Getting more specific, the new journal concludes that "Norwegian moccasins is the latest report from Harvard," and "At Harvard they wear brilliant Argyle socks, or the plain color ribs." Button-down shirts and gray flannels get the expected not also as part of the typical Cambridge costume.

A concluding fashion note states that "Harvard men wear horizontally and vertically striped knitted and foulard ties and bows in restrained patterns." The source of all this revealing data is not disclosed.

Rules and Regulations

Another interesting feature which aiming to endear "College" to its new readers is an all-inclusive set of rules of college behavior, for the benefit of the more loutish readers.

Presumably with a straight face, they offer, among others, such moral gems as "Don't cram before exams;" "Freshmen, play upon to the sophomore and upperclassmen. . . .ask for advice;" "Don't chew gum insistently" (sic); "Don't bring midget radios to the classroom;" "Don't be bashful about reciting;" "Don't change roommates every week--adjust yourself;" "Leave the bathroom as you ground it."

But despite all this helpful advice, the magazine ends its pages with a doleful note to its anxious readers: "Until further notice, 'College' will not be sod on the newsstands."