SOURCE: "The Day's Work," in Modern Essays of Various Types, edited by Charles A. Cockayne, Charles E. Merrill Company, 1927, pp. 249-63.

In the following essay, Seitz recounts Pulitzer's efforts for the public good, such as his founding of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and other notable endeavors.

The opportunity to perform a great public service and at the same time aid in erecting a monument to the dearest longing of his soul—Liberty—arrived for Mr. Pulitzer in 1885. Commissioned by the people of France, who raised more than 1,000,000 francs for the purpose, August Bartholdi, the sculptor, had executed a gigantic figure of the goddess, wonderful in art and magnificent in conception, designed to stand on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, holding a torch of freedom to welcome the op-pressed of all the world. A committee had been formed, of which William M. Evarts was Chairman...