Life — December 26, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 770 **Main Article: "A Good Enough American to Lecture"** This satirical piece critiques the controversy surrounding Professor Schofield of Harvard, sent to Berlin as an "exchange professor." The article mocks objections to his lecturing abroad because he was "not an American" (not a U.S. citizen), despite being Canadian-born. The satire argues this distinction is absurd—his learning and work are American, and other Canadian-born figures (Dr. Osler at Oxford, Schurman at Cornell) represent American interests abroad without controversy. **Secondary Content: "Lines Written in a Broadway Playhouse"** Wallace Irwin's poem satirizes an ornate Broadway theater, criticizing its excessive decoration while the actual stage performance disappoints. The accompanying illustrations mock theatrical pretension versus mediocre entertainment. The page's overall theme: attacking parochial nationalism and bureaucratic absurdity.