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This lecture-tour has been arranged by the Boston ERA. Popular Lectures Project, whose programs are being conducted with the approval of the Adult Education Council of Greater Boston...
...before yesterday, it was Louis Amberg, an innocent martyr, if there ever was one, not only in death but throughout his whole adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...
18th Month. Can cross his feet and stand on one foot; can use his handkerchief properly; memory begins to function as in the adult mind...
...English-speaking schoolchildren get much fun out of the comedies of William Shakespeare. When they grow up they go to see Shakespeare revived by commonplace companies with routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry...
Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...