Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Yale Honors For Young Taft. In the honor list recently announced St Yale university appears the name Of Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the Republican presidential candidate, who received a philosophical oration for Work in the first half of his junior year. Since his freshman enframe young Taft has frequently been named as an honor winner. After the June examinations It was announced that he led his class in ranking. The Yale annals show that members of the Taft family have always ranked high at the university. Judge William Howard Taft, father of the young man, stood second in scholarship and won the salutatory oration In the Yale class of 1878; an uncle, Peter R. Taft i

Who died some years ago, was first in scholarship in the class of 1867, winning the valedictory oration, and his grandfather, Alphonso Taft, who later was attorney general of the United States, was a high scholar in the class of 1833. Robert is Judge Taft’s oldest son and is nineteen years of age. He hopes to become as famous In the legal profession as did his father and grand father before him. Anglicized Bourke Cockran. Congressman Bourke Cockran is of Irish extraction. It was not so long ago that he hated the English with a passion that was almost criminal. But time brings about many changes. Mr. Cockran not only does not despise the Britisher any more—he affects his manners. his accents, his dress, writes Bud Brier in the Boston Globe. One may see the orator from the Twelfth New York district any bright morning in Washington galloping over the asphalt streets a straddle of an English saddle, the mane and tail of his steed trimmed as at Bristol. His riding suits are of corduroy velvet; his boots are from the finest and most expensive shops of Ixmdon. On his head is a peaked cap of gray, and hts hands are gloved with mittens. Mr. Cockran rides before breakfast. Returning, he has a barber to shave him, a boy to brush his wear for the house, a secretary to call his attention to important matters of state. Leaving his home, he walks rapidly toward the capitol. stopping to look at nothing, never seelag those whose faces are familiar when observed, eyes ever on the great dome that shinek for all. Naw Head of Williams College. The recent Installation of Harry A. Garfield as president of Williams college. Williamstown. Mass., was remarkable for the largo attendance of educators, seventy-five of the best known colleges and unlversitieu being represented by their presidents. Pro

lessor Garfield was chosen about a year ago to succeed Professor Henry Hopkins, whose resignation took effect last June. Like his father, the late James A. Garfield, and his two brothers, Profess' or Garfield is a graduate of the Institution of which he is now the head. After leaving Williams In 1885 he spent a year at Columbia Law school and also studied at Oxford and the London Inns Courts. From 1003 until his elevation to bls present position he held the chair of politics at Princeton. Professor Garfield is the eldest son of the late president of the United States and Is .forty-five years old.

ROBERT ALPHONSO TAFT.

HARRY A. GABFIELD.