Life — April 10, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: Life’s College Contest. Ack calendar month, beginning with May, 1902, until farther notice, Lirz will award a prize of Twenty-five Dollars to the col- lego undergraduate who,daring that month, shall send the best original humorous contribu. Contributions must not be over one hundred and fifty words in length,and may be either verse, joke or episode. Envelopes should be marked ‘College Contest.” If in any month no contribution is received which is up to Lirr’s standard, the prize for that month will not be awarded, The decision of the editors of Lire shall be final. Contributions may be sent at any time and should bear the name, address, college and class of the sender. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by addressed stamped envelope. Lirr will pay at its regular By: Weary H.wobbles. ways get tt—it’s de bloke dat tries to get away from ft dat leads de strenvus life. LIFE’S COLLECTION OF APHORISMS BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW. DOING HRR “BEST.” rates for contributions, not prize-winners, which it accepts. To limit the labor involved in the examination of manuscripts, the contests will be confined to undergraduate students of the following colleges : Cornell, University of California, Columbia, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Vas- sar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Brown, Wesleyan, Williams, Uni- versity of Michigan, Amherst, Princeton, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, Trinity, Hobart, Union, Yale, Harvard, University of Wisconsin. An Exchange of Courtesies. From Brrury. EAR TED: Isend you by express: A copy of my latest opera, A portrait of myself painted by myself. My latest poem. My new play. My designs for a battleship. Working drawings for a public library ; my design. My revised army tactics. Facsimile of a Divine Right. “ How to Govern,” a brochure by W. Hohenzollern, From Wasurxcton. Dear Bitt: By to-day’s steamer I send: “ The Strenuous Life,” by T. Roosevelt. One grizzly ; shot by me. Kinctoscope pictures of me putting out a tipsy citizen. My reprimandof the General of the Army ; illumina- ted. A picture of me in repose. (Very rare.) Wax impression of my backbone. Working drawings of my smile. A complete set of my published works. My regards. comicbooks.com