Life — June 29, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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

553 RTHUR TWINING HADLEY’S election to the presidency of Yale recalls a tradition prevalent there when he was a member of the student body. The future President was in the class of 1876 and carried off the valedictory in that year. Every student in college was acquainted with his personality, for they had all spent many long hours over the admirable Greek grammar written by his father, Professor James Hadley, and there- fore took un especial interest in his son. 80 convinced were the Yale men of the Hadley family’s innate knowledge of Greek, that it wus more or less implicitly believed among them that when Arthur Hadley was boro and for the first time laid in bis father’s arms, he raised his hands in a classical Greek gesture, and exclaimed: “ITarhp ¥pyosac.” (Pater, erkomai !— Father, I am come!) To which his father replied ib true professional tones: ‘‘ Wrong, my son; not the Perfect tense—the Second Aorist —fid@or. (Lithon—I have come.) «¢(-HARGE!” shouted the gallant Colonel. One private alone hung back. He formerly had been a clerk in Pusher'’s dry-goods store, where anything not a cash sale is treason. A es Lede tO THE SOCRATIC METHOD: SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. He: REALLY, RDITH, 1 SRKEMS TO ME THE AKGUMENT 18 ALL ON MY SIDE. YOUR PACULTIFS ARR PAR BETTRK TRAINRD THAN MINE, AND I CANNOT BUT THINK IT 18 MUCI MORE FRARIBLE POR YOU TO LEAKN TO LOVE ME, THAN POR ME, WITH MY SLOW, STUBBORN MIND, TO BEGIN ALL OVER AXD LEARN TO LOVE SOME OTHER GIRL. A BARMAID.” comicbooks.com