Latta when he first commenced to build Latta University." This shows Latta with the tips of his fingers resting on a small table.

Another picture shows him posed with one hand raised and the other resting on what is unmistakably the same little table.

The latter picture, however, has the caption, "Rev.M.L.

Latta making a speech in Pawtucket, R.I., at Y.M.C.A." Both pictures were all too clearly taken in a photographer's studio.

Another page shows us, "Rev.
M.L.Latta and three of his Admirable Presidents." In this case Latta merely takes for himself the upper right-hand corner, the other eminent persons pictured being ex-Presidents Roosevelt, McKinley and Cleveland.
The star illustration, however, is a "made up" picture, in which a photograph of Latta, looking spick-and-span, has been pasted onto what is very obviously a painted picture of a hall full of people in evening dress, all of them gazing at Latta, who stands upon the stage, dignified, suave, impressive, and all dressed-up by the brush of the "re-toucher." This picture is called: "In the Auditorium at London, in 1894." Similar artfulness is shown in pictures of the "university" buildings, where the same frame structure, photographed from opposite ends, appears in one case as, "Young Ladies' Dormitory," and in the other as, "Chapel and Young Men's Dormitory." In his autobiography, Latta tells how, in the course of getting his own schooling, he raised money by teaching a district school during vacation.