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LIFE “While there is Life there's Hope.” XXV. MAY 30, 1895. No, 648. 1g West Tuirty-First Street, New York. VOL. Published every Thursday. $5.00a year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied ty a stamped firected env = sentiment of the people of New York towards its late legislature is closely anal- ogous to the sentiment of all judicious Americans toward the Fifty- third Congress. The Fifty-third Congress was Democratic and had a good Demo- >, cratic President to work with, The late New York legislature was Republican e and had agood Republican £8 Governor to work with. PRED The feeling as to congress and legislature is about the same, that neither body passed any good bill that it dared to neglect or neglected any bad bill that it dared to pass. New York State is entitled to the services of better law- makers than those who have lately done her work at Albany. LiFe hopes that she may get them, but the assemblyman's job is neither lucrative nor attractive, and honest, able men who tackle it usually do so at a sacrifice. Perhaps it is more reasonable to hope that our state legislators may have a better boss, than that they may be better men. Men who do what they are told are useful when wisely instructed. But men who do what Platt tells them to—dear! dear! What hope of succor or direction , can there be from them ? . . - HE public may be par- doned if it permits itself “to smile at the coy attitude of the Presbyterian theological seminaries toward the Presbyterian General Assembly. The Assembly y a year ago invited the seminaries to / walk dutifully into its parlor, and place their endowment funds under its control, The semi- naries, with great unanimity, have expressed their content with present arrangements, and have resolved to keep the control of their funds as hitherto. Whereat the profane public giggles, and surmises that the reading of the seminaries has not been so exclusively theological as not to include the familiar verses about the spider and the fly. * * * SPEAKING of his resignation from the Yale Athletic Com- mittee, Mr. Walter Camp has said that he resigned because he thought he had done his share for football and was entitled to be a spectator and rest in peace for awhile. “1 like the game,” said Mr. Camp, “ but-I don’t like quarrels.” It seems to Lire that this attitude of Mr. Camp is entitled to the respectful consideration of the public. For anyone who doesn’t like quarrels, participation in plans for future intercollegiate football, and particularly for games between Yale and Harvard, must be a painful and ssing duty, After Harvard had, with great difficulty, got leave to play a gentle game with Yale this fall, her gain has been neutralized for the moment at least by Yale's demand for an apology for all aspersions by Harvard coaches of the past behavior of her Captain Hinkey, and by Harvard's refusal to comply with this demand. So it looks at this writing as if Harvard and Yale would not play next fall. Perhaps it will be as well if they don’t, and if footbal! between them lapses for a year or two until a better feeling about it has time to grow up in both colleges. Undergraduate resentment is short-lived. In a year or two all the men who played last year will have been graduated or have left college. Meanwhile folks can worry along if necessary without a Harvard-Yale game. The only contemporary entity that seems to have derived any real enjoyment from anything connected with football since last fall, has been our neighbor, the Evening Post,and the Post has many other sources of gayety and does not need to have the ae kept up on its account. — DMIRAL MEADE isa skilful AY person, and proficient in his art. He has tapped the administra- “=~ tion very briskly on the nose and made the President and the Navy y Deperimnent very angry, < temperament, must be a * source of lively satisfaction. Good-bye, Admiral Meade. If, as you have said, you would presently have been the rank- ing officer in the navy, itis perhaps as well that you should go now. Discretion necessary to a commander as valor, and your discretion is a very doubtful quantity. Injustice has been done to you, but it has all been done by yourself—a grave injustice to an officer of your reputation and your record.