Life — August 4, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ERT Daeg, — oS wy eas ae WONDER IF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WILL GET OUT AN INJUNCTION TO STOP US FKOM USING OUR RUDDERS?" Two Philosophers Expound KIEAT many contemporary minds are turning over the question of education—what it is, and how it can be had. There are three pieces about it in the July Atlantic, One is by Brooks Adams, another by John Jay Chap- man, both of them gentlemen known to have minds into which ideas are liable to in- trude, and both capable of setting forth their ideas in intelligible language. Ve commend their pieces to the inquisitive reader, to g of them anything he can, and with full permission to dis: ith everything they say. Nobody's reputation for prac- sense has ever been damaged, so far as we know, by sagreement with any opinion either of Mr. Adams or Mr. ist of Mr. Adams’s piece is that the problem of olern education is the production of an administrative mind ich more efficient than the present administrative mind © present scientific mind is more efficient than the scien- ind of the Seventeenth Century. Ir. Chapman's piece is about “ Learning,” and how to get ©. He says science isn’t it. “Science is the theory of | business, race business, cosmic business, but science not express spiritual truth.’* lay science knows that the silkworm must be fed on the ses of the mulberry tree, but does not know that the soul of man t be fed en the Bible and the Greek classics. 2. © present commercial tyranny is a new thing and little under. t lics like a heavy fog of intellectual depression over the Kingdom of Mammon, and is fed by the smoke from a million Chapman is for holding up the chin of learning so ‘may not drown in the deep waters of science or com- yet he does not undervalue science or commerce. lue learning. He wants the soul of man to be fed, he gives his impressions about the diet proper for souls. in old story. “The life is more than meat: the is more than raiment.’ We commend Mr. Chapman's urse as an antidote for breakfast-foods, tall towers, obiles, stocks, and the fifteen-cent magazines, all in- nsables of our civilization, but things that need to be n for a few minutes every day. E, S. M. Insteap of the Outlook, why not call it the Outlet? Life’s College Contest Norice To EVERYBODY HE announcement of the prize-winner of Lire’s College Contest will be published in Lire of next week. Following Royal Example Use SAM is rich and ought to pay his help good wages. Also, he ought to give his principal hired man every facility for doing his work well. It does not seem, though, that our neighbor, the New York World, is over captious in this complaint : It appears that three vessels of the United States Na are at the service of the Presiden We read about the President's yacht Mayflower, the esident's yacht Dolphin and the President's yacht Sylph. These ships are used in a personal and social way and yet they appear in the Naval Register, one as a cruiser of 2,690 tons, with two guns; one as a dispatch bnat of 1,486 tons, with two guns, and one asa gunboat of 152 tons, with one gun. They are public Property privately used. The Presidential job, apparently, requires a lot of trotting around, and, if this is so, the trotting should be made as easy as possible for the incumbent. But it is not in the spirit of things American that a Gov- ernment ship should be used to ferry the President's children between their summer home on Long Island and the society functions to which’ they are invited in New York. Nor that a minor member of the Cabinet should be permitted to load up a vessel of the United States Navy with his sisters and his cousins and his aunts and take them to the Yale-Harvard races at New London. The American people are not inclined to be stingy, but some day when an adverse election has changed the com- plexion of things in Washington, a red-headed Congressman may get up and ask some questions calculated to cast un- pleasant shadows on some of our recent Republican Presidents. OTHER: Oh, Effie! to your doll Erric: The acctor says it’s a nervous breakdown. He prescribed mucilage. What has happen THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, comicbooks.com