Life — June 8, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“WILL WALP A FRIED CHICKEN BE AUPFICIENT, MISS “IT WILL, MR. CLOSE, ‘Lass TOU WANT! ‘ALE'S new president is neither a clergyman nor an advertising agent, nor a millionaire, nor a successful soldicr, nor a well-known busi- ness man. He is Arthur Twin- ing Hadley, Professor of Politi- cal Economy, son of James Hadley, Professor of Greek. The new president {s a Yale man by birth and training. His father was a Yale professor of memorable renown, Te was born in New Iaven forty-three years ago, was educated in the New Ilaven public schools and in Yale College, and has been for twenty years a Yale instruc- tor, Ofcourse, President Iad- ley must know all about Yale. He knows enough about busi- NDERSON?" ness to have written a book on the laws of railroad transportation, enough about work- ingmen and affairs to have served as.a Labor Commissioner in Connecticut, and cnough about public speaking and argument to have helped to train the Yale debaters for the intercollegiate debates. His reputation as a professor and lecturer is not bounded by New Ilaven, for lie has been heard at Har- vard, in Boston, and in other parts of this country, as well as by the British Association in England. To all ap- pearanees, he has the qualifica- tions that Yale needs in her president. It is a good thing to see the great prizes in edu- cation go to the professional educators. They are the men who ought to win them, and in whose keeping they ought to be best placed. “STARTING IN ON IITs OWN 100K." The Vicious Mocking-Bird. H,, listen to the mocking-bird! It feu very shocking bird; And all becauso—or so I'vo heard— i And henco methinks— Ho studied on a golfing tinks, And learnod some words—oh, several moro Than “foro!” Some rhymed with haa” And Sam" and “fam,” And some with * rev. And somo with * And “William Tell,” That mado tho air turn blue, And soveral moro Beyond tho * fore" That I shall not repeat, For I've in mind The folks refined Who read this blooming shect, Richard Le Golliwog, “4 MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE.”