Life, 1914-01-08 · page 42 of 44
Life — January 8, 1914 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This editorial satirizes *The World* newspaper's response to Harvard selecting M.A.L. Jackson, a Black student, as class orator for 1914. **The Satire:** Life's editors accuse *The World* of false progressivism. While *The World* claims Harvard "ignored the color line," Life argues it actually emphasized race by calling attention to Jackson's selection as a "timely novelty"—treating his competence as secondary to his race. **The "Gold Coast" Reference:** This refers to Harvard's wealthy residential area housing affluent undergraduates. Life sarcastically quotes *The World*'s remark that "the Gold Coast is not all Harvard," interpreting it as either: (1) a dig at Jackson's African ancestry, or (2) a jab at wealthy students. **The Point:** Life critiques the patronizing, performative nature of tolerating diversity while highlighting race as exotic or unusual. The editorial suggests Jackson should be valued for actual merit, not as a diversifying attraction.
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I have had evidence of the undoubted Disinte- grating Solvent and Eliminating powers of is water in Renal Calculus, and have known its long-continued use to perma- nently break up the gravel-forming habit.” Thelate HUNTER McGuire, M.D., LL. D., Ex-President American Medical Associa- tion and of Medical Society of Virginia Late President and Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College of Medicine, Richmond, Va., etc., said of Buffalo Lithia Water: “I know from constant uce of it personally and in practice that the results obtained from its useare far beyond those which would be warranted by the anal- ysis given. I am of the opinion that it either contains some wonderful remedial agent as yet undiscovered by medical science or its elements are so delicately combined in Nature’s laboratory that they defy the utmost skill of the chemist to solve the secret of their power.”” Buffalo Lithia Water is sold by all druggists and everywhere mineral waters are sold. ahd baat eid ig An Orator from the Gold Coast HE Harvard class of 1914 has selected for class orator M. A. L. Jackson, of Englewood. Mr. Jackson is a negro. The World observes that in electing him, Harvard has “ignored the color line.” Emphasized it, rather, as we look at it. Mr. Jackson is competent in some branch of athletics and pre- sumably also has talent as a speaker, and seems to have impressed his class- mates as a good attraction for a fea- ture of the class-day exercises which will gain interest from the acquisition of a little timely novelty. Mr. Jackson as orator is probably a good choice, but why does the World say: “Happily the Gold Coast is not all Harvard.” Is it speaking of the Gold Coast that Mr. Jackson's fore- bears probably came from, or the tract that harbors a large proportion of the well-to-do under-graduates? Either way it is a safe remark. One would not have Harvard exclusively negro, nor yet exclusively well-to-do, Varicty is better, But the Harvard “Gold Coast,” so-called, harbors its share of likely young men; probably a larger proportion than any equal area in the whole Harvard residential district. The notion that an unduly high per- centage of the children of the more prospered people in this country are worthless is a mistake. It would be ominous if it were not a mistake, for there is still a great deal of prosperity in this country, and if its fruit were mostly rotten, we should be in a bad way. My own dislike of mercantile people in all countries is based upon experiences of the contrary sort. 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