TIME
The weaker sex was back in strength at the University of Iowa last week, and the lonely coeds, able to pick & choose again, were back to normal.
“All right, fellows, snap out of it,” wrote Coed Ivamae (“Tommie”) Bendt in the Daily lowan. “Your prewar manners need a little brushing up. You’re no longer the fair-haired boys the war has made you. Girls like to have doors opened for them, to be called respectable names and to be treated with what chivalry there is left in the world. You fellows are going to be hard up unless something is done about your repulsive selves in a hurry.”
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