Life — July 22, 1915 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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144 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1914, Ltrr's Fresit Are Fuxo has been in operation twenty-eight years. In that time it has expended $150,987.38 and iven a fortnight in the country to 36,767 poor city children, Th ort by bequests coluntary knowledged in this column, y,,acknowledged + ++$3.401.93 + 4.00 10.00 and Mrs. Wm. AL Lieber! 12 Stephen B, Duncan. 190.00 100.00 .s7t College, in America . 10.00 ewes, 1806 + given y Miss’ Martha Hollister, a Holl . Master 3 Master Frederick Bundy A Bachelor. Proceeds of ‘lem Elizabeth Astor . Fawin BL Hoi’ Proceeds of an outdoor ade ‘sate, heid ‘by Mary Brownell... Bepont + Elleford Duke of Neweastie : Sophia D. B. Padelf $4,044.06 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Three dozen hand-made championship tennis balls from the Pennsylvania Rub- ber Company, Jeannette, Pa Four dozen tennis balls, with racquets, from The West Side Tennis Club, New York. Package of boy's clothing, baseball trousers from Mrs. Webb, Greenport, N. Y. On Life’s Wire ELLO. Lire?” “Yes.” “This is the sity of Pennsy speaking, | called up to set you right about that Professor Scott Nearing just dismissed.” apologize. Everybody hats and Chas. S. whom Th “Oh, don't understands.” “ That's just the trouble. Everybody widerstands too well. There has been too much publi I hoped we could quietly push him out and that would be the end of it. You know, @ uni- versity rather hates to be put in the bosition of opposing the dissemination of knowledge” AT LIFE’S FRESH AIR FARM THE BAND “Quite so, U. of P., no matter how true it may be. Even a university hates to be shown up.” “But you know, Lire, this professor was becoming too popular for any use. He was popular not only i the alumni and the undergraduates, but with the general public.” But he wasn't popular with the politicians and the grafters, was he?” Well, not so much so.” How do you account for it?” “The trouble was that he had ac- quired the disgusting habit of thinking for himself upon vital public questions and investigating for himself and set- ting forth the facts just as they were, regardless of whom they hit.” “A very bad habit, to be sure. How much better to do as some of those professors we heard about in the New Haven Railroad investigation, who took fees from corporation agents and then invented their facts to match the fees.” “T would hardly go so far as to recommend that course, cither, Lire. But there is a happy medium.” “ At any rate, U. of P., you shouldn't worry. You'll survive it. You are ne worse than many another university that has done the same thing. “But you misunderstand me, Lire. 1 wasn’t worrying so much about m self as about Professor Nearing. hate to blast the young man’s career.” “You haven't necessarily blasted his career. That is just one way of looking at it,” “Is there another way “Yes, Another w: to treat him as one whom your great educational machine has graduated into fields of greater influence and usefulness. You might confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Academic Independence, magna cum laude!” “Um—ah—well, [ll think about it, Lire. So long.” “Good-bye, University of Pennsyl- vania.” E. 0. J. No Rules for His Protection OND MOTHER: Jack, it's bad enough for you and Tommy to fight, but I can’t allow you both to turn to and knock Clarence down and kick him in the ribs. Horrrut Sox: Oh, bother Clarence! He was just a neutral. comicbooks.com