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...University showed off. Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many...
When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...
...accursed ally, evolution." It points to the spread of atheism in the South, as evidenced by pamphlets urging unbelief which have recently appeared in great quantity, given away at street corners and in the arcades of office buildings. Has the Supreme Kingdom had these pamphlets printed at its own printshop (whence issues Dynamite, the Kingdom's official organ) and had them circulated as if they came from an atheist society? So declared the Macon, (Ga.,) Telegraph. Further, the Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with the grossest commer-cialism." It stated that Dr. Straton...
...brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...