Life — November 21, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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Aided by a strong northerly current Bertie lands at length on an iceberg in the Arctic Circle. Here he can wear evening dress for six months without disgrace. ‘The seals gaze at him in wonder; their soft, expressionless eyes remind him of Ethelberta and Angelina. “What a shame to hunt the pretty creatures,” he said. “I for one will never use sealing-wax again.” No Slur Intended ONTCLAIR, N. J. Lire Pumtisitino Company: Dear LiJe—Why did you have to enforce a good point against President Butler in one of your recent editorials to the extent of a covert slam against the university over which he has the honor to preside? Dr. Butler is an individual with whom many disagree. Columbia is an institution that has claims oa you for more con: siderate treatment, Do you recall that it was Columbia, on Murray Strect, that gave New York Governor Clinton, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton? And do you not realize that to-day Columbia, fon Morningside Heights, is still closely interwoven with the life of ‘our greatest city in a manner by no means unworthy of the best traditions of an honorable history of over one hundred and fifty years? Have you no spirit of family comradeship and loyalty to this other and older of the intellectual sons of the city? Most obviously, with over five thousand students, Columbia does not necd graduates of Groton or the Hill to keep up its registration rolls, although, for all I know, this selected aristocracy may be coming to New York right along. I take it, however, that, whatever the merits of Dr. Butler's criticism of unnamed boarding schools, Lire should remember that Columbia is a great university, thor- oughly representative of the great city to which Lrre also owes its existence. Be charitable to a brother's faults, if such there are, and do not make use of them merely to point a jest. Your editorials are too good for that sort of talk. Very truly yours, Frank Kipper. In suggesting that the boys from the best known boarding-schools are not apt to go to Columbia, Lire did not mean to disparage that university. Columbia’s situation in a great city is in some particulars a detriment to its academic department, at the same time that it is a great benefit to its professional schools, If, as a rule, the boarding- school boys do not go to Columbia, it is because the life that is possible in New Haven, Princeton and Cambridge is more attractive to them than college life in New York. There is no question about Columbia’s great importance as an institution of learning.—Ep1tor. To Let “TO BE let—at a very delicate rate, A snug little house in a fine, healthy state. 'Tis a Bachelor's Heart, and the agent is Chance, Affection the rest, to be paid in advance. ‘The Owner, as yet, has possessed it aloney So the fixtures are not of much value, but soon 'Twill be furnished by Cupid himself, if a Wife ‘Take a lease for the term of her natural life. ‘The tenant will have a few taxes to pay, Love, Honor, and (heaviest item) Obey! As for the good-will, the owner’s inclined To have that—if agreeably settled, in kind, Provided true title by proof can be shown To a heart unencumbered, as free as his own. So, Ladies, dear Ladies, pray do not forget Here’s an excellent—Bachelor’s Heart H. P. FL B. A sship at last! It proves to be a sealing-wax trader. Our hero sells the seals for a fabulous sum and a passage to New York. Sitting at his club window one evening after his return, Bertic's attention is attracted by the peculiar antice of a sacred edifice near by. The Little Church Around the Corner is actually winking at him, He hastens across the street to inquire the cause. comicbooks.com +