Life — August 11, 1910 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“LE SESE * “waste sakes (2) waist’ AUER College Contest Announcement of Winner N its issue of April 7, to10, Lire offered one hundred dol- lars for the best article on any college written by a college student. A large number of replies were received, but the great majority, we regret to say, were far below the standard of literary merit that was expected. Many were characterized by bad glish and not a few by bad spelling. Of humor there was scarcely a trace. It would be unfair to condemn too sweepingly the work of the contestants without mentioning the fact that a small minority of the articles were well written and would have passed muster if they had not dealt with the subject from too serious a standpoint. Although Lire’s requirements ought to be well understood, a majority of the contestants seemed to think it necessary to write a more or less descriptive article, instead of one in which the information given was incidental. We are glad to record, however, that the contribution which is, in our judgment, the best, and to the author of which we ha of these criticisms, ¢ therefore awarded the prize, is open to none YY L \\! RUN “| DIDN'T KNOW youNG Mr. Malcolm H. Bissell (Yale, 1911) is the prize-wiriner, and we publish herewith his winning story: YALE Yale is a great American university located at New Haven, Conn. It is bounded on the north by the Harvard Lampoon, on the east by the New Haven police force, on the south by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and on the west by Savin Rock. Yale's origin dates from 1701. After sixty-five years of Harvard alone the situation had become so serious that something had to be done. Accordingly, Yale was founded at Saybrook. Conn. The opinion of present critics is that this action saved the nation. In 1714 Saybrook was found to possess too many exciting distractions, and the nced of a quiet and peaceful location be came urgent. The college was therefore moved to New ven. In the following year the abandoned building at Say brook was purchased by the New Haven Railroad Compan: for use as a passenger station in New Haven, where it i giving splendid service. When Yale was moved to New Haven the. latter place was a mere hamlet. It is now a thriving city of 130.000 inhabi tants. Thus the remarkable uplifting influence of Yale on the community is evident. In 17— football was introduced. and Jonathan Edwards was elected captain of the team. Under his leadership Yale speedily took the front in the sport and in the championship game Harvard was defeated 184 to 0. Tinme- diately afterward “To Hell with Yale'’ was adopted as the Harvard motto. During the war of 1812 an attempt to destroy the college was made by sailors, and in 1841 another attack was made on the college by town toughs. Both of these attacks afforded the varsity football squad excellent practice, and the college was not damaged. Since then the attitude of the townspeople to ward Yale has considerably moderated, and they now cor themselves with mercly separating the student-body fr« much of its cash as possible. Yale has given many great men to the nation The chair of the President of the United States is now being filled by a SMITIL MAD GONE," comicbooks.com