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...Oswald Garrison Villard employs the current issue of The Forum to paint a dark picture of the future of daily journalism in the United States. The daily newspaper, he says, is disappearing, and he adduces figures to support his contention that the chain system that has standardized American groceries is threatening to absorb and standardize American newspaperdom...
...Lewis Browne, author of "This Believing World", "That Man Heine", and various other books, will lecture at the Ford Hall Forum next Sunday evening...
...discussion of "The Critic and American Life" in the current issue of The Forum, Professor Irving Babbitt, after denouncing what he terms the "superior intellectual vaudeville" of Mr. H. L. Mencken and pointing out the ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds...
...diplomacy south of Key West, in short, to show that though circumstance makes him seem a Caesar, the President of the U. S. is but the tribune of a peacefully potent and ambitious people,?what better gesture than for the President of the U. S. to attend a forum of what must not be thought of as the U. S. provinces; to appear, congratulate, speak and depart as a respectfully interested figure no more dominant?save by chance?than any of the republican Presidents not present...
...open forum will follow the regular debate, in which all members of the University are invited to participate...