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...Only two of the ten colleges at the conference represented reported any administrative interference with their editorial policy. Hunter College in New York City, the only unendowed college at the meeting, was one of the two to report that it was not allowed to print any editorial or open forum comments on the faculty or administration. New York Times
Scribner's increased its page size and altered its format to something generally resembling Forum. Feature titles blazoned on the orange cover seemed more provocative than usual: "Hoover Can Not Be Elected," by Elliott Thurston; "Mill Girls," by Sherwood Anderson; "A Bride...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes...
...pulpit is not an academic forum, nor is it a book review clinic. . . . Such an effort is a waste of time. . . . The pulpit is not a reform bureau. The gospel message is not primarily a reform message. . . . [Christ] came to save sinners, not to reform them. . . . Salvation is not by law, neither is it by works...
Indeed, the only magazines in America that have survived the change in manners since the virginal days of 1912 are the ones that have learned to trim their sails, both typographically and editorially. Some, like "Vanity Fair," have kept pace gracefully and insensibly; others, like the "Forum," pied the old type and came forth clad in a cover of boiler-room Roman the better to face hard facts. In every case, the age has made the magazine not the magazine the age. For with the passing of personal journalism and the great tradition of William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley...