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...Taking this interpretive function into account, it follows that the only possible reason for the existence of acting as an art is to make words more beautiful and expressive to the audience than they would appear in reading...
...have become one nation, we can only survive through the most elaborate system of concerted action. Any part which fails to function is chargeable with disloyalty to the whole people...
...article in question is so flagrantly erroneous that it hardly needs refutation," said Strawn, "but it affords an excellent starting point for a discussion of the lawyer's true function and place in society. I want to give the law school men a statement of legal ethics, and at the same time destory any wrong impressions which may have lodged in the minds of those who may have read the article...
...perhaps the answer to those who for one reason or another have questioned, from the founding of the first university, the worth of such an institution. Of the making of many books there is proverbially and truly no end; but the making of many books is not its only function; and only the shortsighted will deny that the deciphering of ancient tablets is not, in its way, as important as the constant warfare against disease which goes on in the medical school. It it a truism that from the past men may understand the future; it is also a truism...
...library patrons that they may be acquainted with every shade of opinion. In this the Chicago Public Library is like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal of a free press. Any other course would lead to an arbitrary censorship as detrimental to American political liberty as to American academic thought...