Life — March 7, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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194 Mrs. Stanford and Professor Ross. old friend and reader of Lire in Californi: AX Rockefeller gets on better with the professors in his university than Mrs. Stanford does with her: “larger minded” than Mrs. injustice. He writes : Very likely Mrs, Stanford's mind ix not so “large” as Mr. Nockefeller’s. Atany rate, she has none of it to sp for getting ri r. has given it all to the university to which she has also given her Possibly it is the mark of a narrow mind to wish to give anything more than money. cha 8 But Mrs. Stanford ces to have not only a woman's heart, but an uncommonly hard and unmuddled head Stanford Univ his wife— sity wax founded by the old War Governor and the usual way of such gifts, but in almost idolatrous memory of their only son, Since the Senator's death, the university has stood to his widow for husband as well as child She has no ot , fin i And her motherhood gging kind. Jf any demic freedom,” Phis is not only a fact, but an organic other American university has as complete * ith aped my not ss episode, on which your comment falls, bears no rela- Mrs. Stanford's sex, her age (now seventy-one), nor to the wealth she had—before she devoted it to education. It is precisely because she has not lost her faculties that she, perhaps, a little HAVE YOU WEARD OP MISS FLORA MAC-TLITTINO WHO LEARNED HOW TO SKATE AT ONE SITTING? <LIFE * Mr. C. F. Lummis, thinks that Lire’s recent suggestion that Mr. because Mr. Rockefeller is sanford, does Mrs, Stanford RNS WS Me iy nity 2 oe URN SF avo aed + SD cut omnes Wolf: weit, WELL, 1P THERE ISN'T LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD? WUAT AM 1 TO DO Now, 1 WoNDER? accelerated the inevitable. When any Eastern university shall invite Coin” Harvey to a chair, it will be full time to blame Stanford for dismissing a pernicious partisan, whose campaign Look was as wise and refined as Harvey's but without that gentle- man’s excuses, and who has “kept going.” Economies, “ Money Power,” un old woman's vagaries had nothing to do with the case. Acommitteeof Stanford alumni, appointed to consider the Ross case, has reported that the dismissal of Professor Ross “involved no infringement of the right of free speech.””—Eb. P DITOR LIFE—Dean Sin: Itisn'toften that I feel like spoiling a two-cent stamp in expressing commendation of a newspaper, but the Halifax man’s letter in this week's Lire and your reply com- pel me to break the rule. That you have stuck so nobly by your colors—the real Red Cross flag of humanity—in a time when so many national ensigns have been trailed in the dust by conscience- less seekers after glory, has been a great comfort to me and mine. . The humorists are right on these questions, as on mostothers, If we had had the humorist Lincoln in the Presidential chair, we should not now be standing in Spain's shoes, engaged in Weylerizing the Philippines, and holding up the hands of a Power that is Weyler- izing South Africa. Liv "s warfare on tyranny, on religious inconsistency, and on social snobbishness is the one righteous war of these times. Long iay it go on, in spite of all temptations to surrender! ur long-time friend, Brooxtys, Fen. 12, 1901, i, H, M. The Limit. USTER: I am having awful luck, to my last dollar. DepBROKE: Pshaw, that’s nothing. Tam now down Wait till you are down to the last dollar of your last friend. comicbooks.com