Colleges That Have Appeared In New Yorker Cartoons

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<p>One heuristic of prestige that everyone seems to have overlooked is how often a college has been the subject of a New Yorker cartoon, surely a symbol of branding if ever there was one. Princeton tailgating parties seem to be a favorite object of fun as is this 1967 poke at Wesleyan which could be just as current today:</p>

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<p>Here's one in Dilbert; and so so true.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.west-point.org/parent/wppc-north-ca/photos/Funnypictures/html/image_25.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.west-point.org/parent/wppc-north-ca/photos/Funnypictures/html/image_25.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I might strike out on the New Yorker cartoon lampoons...the cartoon editor of the magazine is a Swarthmore grad.</p>

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<p>I can't find a link to it, and it doesn't represent a particular college, but there was one where the setting was a cocktail party. Two imposing looking guys look suspiciously at a third man who is approaching them. One of the 2 guys says to the 3rd guy, "If you're not a Ph.D., scram."</p>

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Here's one in Dilbert; and so so true.

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Maybe not entirely true. The original</a> Dilbert strip actually referenced the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). Someone at USMA apparently decided to "improve" it.</p>