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Show Mark Twain's Coveted 1'rofeamrahlp. " Mark Twain made plenty of fun for as delighted audience at Bryn M.iwr college. "I have been elected an honorary member mem-ber of the class of '9t," said Mr. Clemens. "I feel deeply grateful to my fellow classmates class-mates for the compliment they have dona me, the more so because I feel I have never deserved eueh treatment. I will reveal a secret to you. I have an ambition: am-bition: that I may go up and up on the ladder of education until at bint I may be a professor of Bryn Mav.T college. I would be a professor of telling anecdotes. This art is not a very high one, but it is a very useful one. One class of anecdotes is that winch contains only words. You begin almost as you please and talk and talk until your allotted time and close when you get ready, "I will illustrate this by a story of an Irish and Scotch christening. In this i Scotch-Irish village a baby hud been bora ami a large numlier of friends had collected col-lected to see it christened. The minister, I thinking this a good opportunity of dis- I playing bis oratorical powers, took the baby in his hand, saving: 'He is a little fellow; yes, a little fellow, and as I look in your faces I soe an expression of scorn which suggests that you despise him. But if you had the, soul of a poet and the gift of prophecy you would not de- i spise him. You would look far into the future and see what it might be. Con- j sidcr how small tlio acorn is from vhich grows tho mighty oak. So this little child may be a great poet and write tragedies, or a great statesman, or per- ; haps a future warrior wading in blood to his neck; he may be er what is his Paine? His name, oh, is Mary Ann.' " Philadelphia Record. |