Life — January 18, 1912 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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yin Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long for Our Limited Space. From Tufts College To tue Epitor or Lire: In your comment on the criticisms of the Call on the “ Forward Movement,” you assume that that movement is to be based solely on the Sermon on the Mount, but you seem to overlook the historic fact that Christianity has never confined itself to that platform; that in- evitably has followed in the train of the Sermon on the Mount, Original Sin, Eternal Damnation, Predestination, Transubstantiation, the Confessional, the Divinity of Christ, Doctrine of the Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, all the Hierarchi Archbishops and Bishops, Popes and Cardinals, Archi- mandrites and Patriarchs, and nearly all the other hideous superstitions that have oppressed humanity ever since the rights of individual thinking perished with Greece. While the present writer does not claim to be a “learned per- " neither is he an “ignorant Social- yet he sympathizes emphatically with the Call in this matter. Sincerely, Cuartes St. Crate Wane, Tufts College, Massachusetts. (PB. S—You sometimes print letters opposing your cherished theories—dare you print this?) A Shot from Harvard Dear Lire: Thanks for enlightening the Harvard students about Harvard! Next time we hear Senator Bourne lecture in Emer- son Hall on the Initiative and Referen- dum we shall not be duped, merely by the words of the speal into the error that he is a “ campaigning politician ad- dressing the students on a political ques- tion.” Your editorial of December 14 is authority for a major premise: that addresses on political questions, for as much as they “distract the minds of students from subjects” (such as gov- ernment) “proper to engage them in such a place as Harvard,” will not be permitted at Harvard. Minor premise: This man is lecturing at Harvard. Ergo This man is not a “campaigning pol cian addressing the students on a po- litical question,” We are indebted to that same edito- rial for the knowledge that Mrs. Pank- Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication hurst was an “uninvited speaker.” I trust your other comments on the suf- frage question are based on equally ac- curate facts. You have (in other matters) displayed so lively a fancy, when occasion de- mands, that I do not hesitate to ask you to imagine this—that the Harvard Cor- poration has hitherto allowed political addresses by political persons, that it has hitherto allowed student organiza- tions to exercise their own judgment about whom they shall listen to, that it has hitherto allowed the students to listen to their guests in college halls, that Mrs. Pankhurst was invited by a student organization, and that the corporation, in this case, declined to grant a hall. What is Live's comment on such an hypothetical case? Yours for free discussion, A. S. Ouastei Harvard Men’s League for Woman Suffrage. President Camuripce, Mas: December 15, Modesty Forbids Our Publishing This Epitor ov Lire: Dear Sin—While not a listed sub- seriber to your estimable magazine, I have been a regular reader of it for the past four years. After these years of careful reading, I want to express to you my personal gratification for the benefits I have derived, and incidentally tell you what I think of Lire. I may not be conservative in the re- mark I am about to make, but it is my humble and candid opinion just the same, that your magazine does more to purify the political and social atmos- phere of this republic than any five other publications together — including those which have been especially dedi- cated to the work. Your criticisms of “society,” polities, “the Administration,” suffragettes, and last, but greatest, THE PENSION FRAUD, are wholesome and are pre- sented in such a way that a man will read them and think seriously, whether he agrees with you or not. I truly hope you will give Champ Clark and his cot- crie of vote-seekers a dark brown taste in their mouths for several months to come for their recent cheap, childish Ott. BOOK TITLE ILLUSTRATED: “THE LONG ROLL” grandstand play before the G. A. R. With all kind wishes for your con- tinued and increasing success, I am, An appreciative and regular reader, Jas. B. Sitaxxoy, Brownwoop, TExas, December 23, 1911. * For Reasons Tue Epitor or Lire: Dear Sir.—Within the last few days it has been brought to my attention that there exists a widespread belief that I am still a member of the New York Anti-Vivisection Society. Will you kindly allow me space to say that I, with about forty others, resigned from that society nearly a year ago and no longer have any connection with that organiza- tion whatsoever. I wish to state that this move was through no diminishment of our interest in the anti- ction cause, but for quite other reasons. Maup R. INcersott. Vivisection Investigation League. New Yorx City, December 8. To Contestants REMEMBER that Lire’s contest closes on January 20, and that the picture (which appeared in the last two issues) will not be published again until it appears with the announcement of the winner in the Valentine Num ber, dated February 1.