Life — October 14, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“While there iz Life there's Hop VOU. Liv OCTOBER 1, 198 N d by PUBLISHING COMPANY LIFE JA Min first Street, New York, t HE. colles Ss are open Cast in a earth perceptibly As we go to press Harvard is busy inaugurating her new president. It is a three-day job, conducted with sistance from learned men from a great number of colleges and. uni versities at home and abroad To and once more the revolves, much as Boston it is as momentous an occasion as the Hudson-Fult the previous week was to New The demonstrations, to be celebration of York. sure, are not so boisterous, nor the excitement so diffused, nor the crowd so great, There was New York was just a but the feeling is deeper no feeling at all about the show—not a ray. That and very good of But the Na- Lig public blow-out its kin tion of a new Harvard president is an event, and one that is expected to pro- duce noticeable effects on civilization We don't remember any time when there was than now among the college authorities about improving the students. The faculties yearn uncommonly to get the young men infatuated knowledge and infused with wisdom, and they grum- ble more than usual a proportion of the youths tha to the infatua , to be sure more fervor with pecause so large come to them seem immu tions they to stray off are exposed to and pron and get deliriums on their that are frivolous Dr. Lowell, in his in- own account and unimproving augural address, may, perhaps, suggest some new processes for making leart ious among his undergrad is one thing that natur the attention of a ing cont uates. Tha ally engages new college president, the others being to use the guid aries of knowledg machinery entrusted to his nce so as to advance the hound The college job ‘LPP * is to turn out a lot of instructed men who know how to behave and to think and to be useful, few leaders of thought who can pound. The leading college presidents are not particularly well satistied at with their either discover and ex present success in endeavor, and their discontent is very hopeful. They all want a different college atmosphere from what they have got—one much more stimulating to mental aspirations and much penetrated by futile distractions. We believe they do better, as itis, than they always get credit for and that they are warranted in hoping for less great improvement to come. Tn national im portance the colleges have inereased enormously in the last quarter century They help one another by their com- petition. Wherever one shows a good way, all the rest benefit by it, and all together they constitute an interest far too important to be long misdirected or lowed to yield less than a full crop of good fruits ond ADA SOs WHOLE week of organized dis- ther a severe ex York has not had such a week before in the mem ory of the generation. New York has never had a world’s fair, but rld’s fair would not be as dis- tracting in any single week of it as the week of the Hudson-Pulton celebra- tion. Now the city can settle down to the work of electing a mayor. Mr. Ban- pard is a first-rate candidate, for whom nobody who wants to beat Tammany traction is perience to a city ew present even aw hesitation about votir Fusion ticket which he ket throughout, and cally a Fusion ticket, since there is J representation of Democrats need have any Moreover the heads is a good In nominating Judge Gaynor, Tam many’s leader is credited with putting up a man whom Tammany ¢ want, seemed necessary Judge Gaynor is a man of a great deal of assorted reputation, much of which is good and all of it is interesting Mr. Edward M. Shepard, who nomi- nated him, assured his audience that if Mr. Gaynor is elected there will not be Des Not because it “a dull, or sodden, interesting moment tion. Judge G: mayor, will be It may be recalled that it was Mr, or stupid, or un in his administra then, if he is nor, 1 mayor “on his toes.” Shepard who made the opening re arks at the Jerome dinner last spring and spoke as handsomely of Mr. Jerome as he does of Judge G: nor. Two gentlemen thus commended by a third might be expected t mend cach other. Not so. Gaynor refused to run on the Tam- many ticket if Mr. Jerome went on it, and Mr. ks of Judge G nor as “that abhorrent product, a political judge,” as “a political charls "and other things that candidates ought not to be. As Mr. Jerome, run- special” for district-attorney. paign there will be as before com- Judge Jerome spe ning will be active in the short ¢: it is expected that few “sodden tion as Mr. after it If Judge Gaynor was a gua angel of light as the Tammany nomi- nee for mayor he would be a good moments elec- Shepard expects to see anteed man to vote against. Whoever votes te keep Tammany in power votes to put wolves in charge of the sheep. It makes little difference who the herd is if the wolves have the there is a Western progress shep- run of pout Mr. is that he say All of his speeches and cach one has been a suitable message he audience that heard it cumulative effect of his suecessiv liverances as one reads them day after day in the newspapers is pretty serious. Mr. Taft forth the whole legislative pr too much in his speeches have been interesting, is setting amme of his adminis ». Anybody who takes the trouble ve all his addresses, from Beverly ‘ound the circle and back to Washington, © the record of his views on nearly every considerable subject with which his administration is likely to be concerned The tariff talk at Winona continues great will to be the speech most discussed—and most denounced, but that is less the fault of the speaker than of the subject. comicbooks.com