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...teacher was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan for teaching the theory of evolution to his innocent pupils in violation of a state law. Darrow took the defense with Arthur Garfield Hayes and Dudley Field Malone and by carrying the case to the Tennessee Supreme Court, managed to get Scopes freed on a technicality...
Conservative critics found their usual faults with Rivera's work-a lack of coordination between the various sections, a terrific overcrowding of the individual pictures with figures and incidents. What no one realized until he actually saw the frieze was the effective propaganda Artist Rivera could make when freed from the necessities of Capitalist contracts. Biased as a princess slip though they were, the 21 fresco panels made the most exciting show of the season...
...vocational courses. In that campaign, and in all the speechmaking and pamphleteering that attended it, Harvard has taken a conspicuous part. Its graduate schools have followed many paths, and the Business School in particular is suspect of liberal educators, but the loyalty of the college itself to a tradition freed from vocational necessity has not been seriously questioned. The faculty of music, for instance, gives no practical instruction; painting is taught only through the theory distilled from the techniques of representative...
...Freed for once from the embarrassments of his own campaign (see p. 21) the Mayor was superb. He stuck out his great jaw and roared questions at Herr Spanknoebel till the latter cringed in embarrassment. In random efforts to pronounce his name he called him "Spanknoobel," "Spanknoodle" and once "Stoopnagel...
...When freed from his academic duties, Professor Abbott finds refuge "in the red house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish...