The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-16
CHANCELLOR DAY, 67 TOMORROW, IS CHAMPION
 COLLEGE BEGGAR

Rev James Roscoe Day. D. D., A B.
 D. La ad P t,t3,Ss P L consume ns of the clergyman known to interna-
 tionaI fame as Chancellor Day of Sy- racuse University, who will celebrate
 his sixty-seventh birthday tomorrow.
 Among those who will send congratu- latory messages to the eminent edu- cator, 1t may be predicted will be MT. and dissolved Standard Oil Company. One might even guess that the oil magnate's letter of felicitation will be- gin Enclosed please ind Every
 time MT. Archbold or MT. Rockefeller is attacked in the public prints. it is
 Chancellor Day who rushes to the heinous charge When William Ran dosph Hearst recently published what pu-ported to be copies of communica- tfons that have passed between Mir. Archbo1d and Senator Penrose, the lat ter named gentlemen declared that the money mentioned in the letters was the Standard Oil contribution to the Roosevelt campaign fund. received and expended with the full Knowledge of Colonel Roosevelt. And there came a voice from Syracuse saying, Tt is
 The A B. in Chancellor Days string of titles may stand for Bachelor of Arts. and again it may be Able Dod- gers All college presidents, in or der to hold their jobs, may be past masters of the gentle art of separ- ating rich men from their coin. but
 
 est of the lot. During his adminis- tration of eighteen years, Chancellor Day has built up at ''Sarahouse" university that ranks among the first in America in number of students. The chubby-faced Chancellor has secured financial assistance from half of the sF1ch men of the United States, but Standard oil magnates in general and Mir. Archbold in particular, have been his main stay. It was MT. Archbold who presented Syracuse with a sta- z =Iras-1 11r a n and with seven or twelve other mag nificent edihces-
 aArchbold and the Chancellor is a, case of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" pr. Day is firmly, and. no doubt, honestly convinced that ever happened for America, and that the oil trusut in particular is nothing short of a godsen6- The Chancellor never overlookS a chance to express such views in the press and in addresses to the student body. This. alliance has naturally led to harsh criticism of the Chancellor, and Incited Alfred Henry Lewis to label the Syracusue University head "a Eort of reputationa1 valet to MT. Arch bold. employed to brusuh from the ArchboId name what 1ecks of mud and mire MT ,Archbolds misdeeds may settle thereon:
 Me, Oct. IT, 1S45, and was educated l at Bowdoin College. He was ordain- l ed to the Methodist ministry forty 1 years ago, and before beginning his ! educational activities occupied pulpits | at Bath and Portland Me, Boston | and New York. He has been chan | eellor of Syracuse University since | 1894 Eight years ago he was elect 1 ed bishop of the Methodist Episco- l pal Churuch, but declined the honor. The staunch defender of the wealthy 1 and the rights of capital,'' pr. Day l is himself comparatively poor and | lives in a modest stytle. While he ! has come in for much severe criti- cisIn. it has never been charged that l he has benefited personally from his intimate association with the male factors Of great wealth.