Life, 1906-05-10 · page 5 of 26
Life — May 10, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on American education and politics from an unspecified early 20th-century date. The top illustration "After the Show" depicts a Roman chariot scene labeled "Chariot, Sir! Chariot! Chariot!"—likely satirizing theatrical excess or pretentious cultural displays. The "Schooling" section mocks Professor Shaler's geology teaching at Harvard, suggesting he focuses more on walking advertisements than actual education. The text humorously questions whether an engaging personality makes an effective teacher. The "In School" section includes a definition joke about "unpleasant notoriety" using a U.S. Senate reference—appearing to mock ineffective or notorious senators. "Fakirs Whom Justice Neglects" criticizes Carnegie's kissing story and newspapers' exaggeration of minor incidents while ignoring serious injustices. The piece expresses skepticism about fair justice.
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. Service Schooling HEN we are told that or Shaler was \ not a great geologist, inas- \ NA much as he did not give ZL himself whollyto geology, ' and that his s i the Harvard faculty will be some great geologist who has given himself wholly to geology, we are fain to wonder, once more, whither we are drifting. It seems pertinent to ask which reflects the greater glory on a school, the professor who discovers trilobites and protoplasms, produces life artificially and things of that sort, or the professor who confronts his students, day by day, with a full man, AFTER THE SHOW CHARIOT, SIR! CitaRiot! CHARIOT! lotus, teres atque rolundus; and which of these is the real teacher and which the walking advertisement, the sandwich man of a sublimer order? Shaler seems to have used his subject as a means, rather than an end, As an educational engine, his geology, according toall testimony, was pretty efficient. The more elaborate geology of will be fortunate if it does as well. Wheels but poorly compensate the power they waste by the noise they make. In School “DEFINE unpleasant notoriety.” “Occupying a seat in the United States Senate.” MAY iS Watn en Fakirs Whom Justice Neglects ‘The party who started the fake story of that Park- hurst a ion plot has been sent to prison for seven years just to show him that New Yorkers will stand for no trifling —Washington Post. Bt nothing at all will happen to the promulgators of the Carnegie kissing story. Nine-tenths of the newspapers in the country jumped at a chance to make Andrew appear ridiculous by print- ing, with all sorts of exaggerations, a lying report. By a like outrage several years ago they did a very grave damage to Hobson. Did they suffer? Will they suffer? Not a whit. Seven years’ im- prisonment for one liar; not so much as an effectual reproof for these others. No fair deal about that. comicbooks.com