Life — April 5, 1906 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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“ While there ts Life there's Hope. VOL.XLVIL. APRIL S, 1906. No. 17 West Tiuwry-Fixst Starer, New Yous: TFHE corporation of Yale University consists of the President of the University, the Governor and Li nt-Governor of Connecticut, teen Fellows, of whom six are by vote of the aly These six elec tive Fellows hold office for six years, and are ciigible for re-election. Each year the term of one of them expires. and an election is held to fill his place Senator Depew’s term happens pire year, Circulars sent out to Yale gradu: usual course, asking for n for the and on C ment Day a successor to Mr. or Depew Yale Cor- years (three ) ex: this have been tes. as is the inations vacancy, mmenc Denew will be chosen by vote, Sen has becn a member of the poration for cightecn and and some agitation, to sce whether he will be again re-elected. We presume that most Yale men would have much should not terms), there is much curiosity preferred that his name have come before them this year, He has been a much disciplined, and in- deed afflicted, man, and we suppose that common kindness will make his Yale brethren loath to subject him to what may scem a rebuff in the house of his friends by denying him re-election, Those who vote for him, as doubtless many will, can claim, we that he is very believe, with entire justice, to-day at least as good a man in char- acter as he has been during the past cighteen years. His reputation, of course, has suffered, but it is not he that has changed. What has changed has been the standard by which he and his like have been used to be measured. *-LIFE- The Yale Corporation is a curiously anachronistic Lody, anyway. As we have said, it includes six elective mem- These gentlemen are Fellows in the stead of the six senior Senators of Connecticut, who to share the responsibilities of managing Yale, but bers, used retired to give the graduates a voice. i ten of the Fellows are still se- lected from the Congregational minis- ters of Connecticut, as provided by law in remote times when ministers were regarded as the safest depositories of educational responsibilit Yale hav- ing considerably outgrown the limita- tion of any sect, and being no longer ed with the training of ministers, it has come to be rather amusing that a majority of its Govern- ing Board should continue to be drawn that one of the learned profes- sions which has, we suppose, by very ch the — smallest representation among the graduates. But the old chietly concer from ip holds harder in Connee- in any other State. Privi- clings with curious tenacity there. ipular government in that State is restricted by the ancient and villages, hard. Fellows are very mach and Some rights of towns char comes slow and of Yale ministerial very competent men—they all are, anght we know to the contrary—but nee of so large a group of Board is a striking re- times, the continu: them minder of old such KLY wants Pres- ident Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, to be the next Democratic candidate for President of the United States, and the World suggests Mr. Joseph H. Choate as a proper Repu! lican candidate for Governor of New York. Dr. Wilson is a gentleman and ascholar, and is said to bea statesman, but how much experience he has had LLARPERS WE. in driving wild-cats has not been dis- closed. The next Democratic candidate will have to hitch up a team which for and disparity of prefer- ence it would tax all the resources of the menagerie to match. Unless the can- political Hagenbeck of fractiousnes didate is a pre-eminent him. As for Mr. Choate, the World says it can think of no more fitting climax to his brilliant: public career than to restore the Governorship of New York to” its former dignity. Very good, but why hasten to adjust a climax to Mr. Choate? If there is a climax waiting to be fitted, we had sooner see it used on Mr. Pulitzer, and keep Mr, Choate along to serve as human nature's daily food. We don't greatly value Mr. Pulitzer as daily food. He tastes bad a good deal of the time. Mr. Choate never does Mr. Hughes onght to make an in- teresting candidate for Governor of New York, if Mr. Odell is willing. talent his cattle will eat OR a big man Secretary Taft is Ife seems to be good enough for any place, and no place is too good for him. The qualities that suit a Secretary of War, a Justice of the Supreme Court, and President of the United States are by no means identical, but for any one of these places Judge Taft is re- garded as supremely fit. It is understood that handy Judge ‘aft has been invited to be the suc- cessor of Justice Brown on the Su- preme Bench. We hope that some time or other, when he gets around to it, he will bestow himself upon that im- portant piece of our national furniture. He is too big a man to be running about on the surface of the earth, now in the Philippines, now at Panama. We can better spare a sparer person for those itinerant duties. Mr. Taft ought to be anchored somewhere, and to some permanent job of public ser- Let us hope he will go on the bench. “Heft” is more needed there than in any other department of our Government, and Judge Taft is cred- ited with having all the kinds of heft there are. Moreover, Congress, which has brought to nothing some of Secre- tary Taft's best work, cannot nullify his labors if he goes on the bench. ‘The would be on the singularly adjustable. vite. boot, in that case, other foot. comicbooks.com