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...orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
...athletics needed stimulating far more than curbing, the New York World came out with a suggestion which if put into effect, might have altered the whole future development of Harvard athletics. At that time Congress was considering several projects for reaching the North Pole, and it is with this object in view that the World says...
...that would take just a hundred and seventy-five minutes to solve so that there would still be time before the close of the examination for the traditional remark concerning the lateness of the hour. For it is doubtful whether even those with the steadiest of nerves would object to the passing of peripatetic proctors...
...with Lawyer Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, had defended Teacher Scopes. Lawyer Darrow, resting in Mobile, Ala., held his peace but Lawyer Malone spoke out: "We did not go there to save Scopes from an excessive fine. Nobody cared whether he was fined $100 or $1,000. . . . Our object in going to Tennessee was first, to expose the ignorance and intolerance which had produced such a law and, secondly, to test its constitutionality by ultimately carrying it to the United States Supreme Court...
What causes such ridiculous antics in the name of public morality? It Chaplin's films had in them anything which the strictest Puritan could object to, the municipal censors might be justified. But no evil that he does lives on the screen. His pictures are clean in addition to being funny. When "Searing Kisses", "Bachelor Husbands", and "The Gilded Bed" are allowed, it seems strangely paradoxical that Chaplin's off-stage actions should be considered subversive of popular morality...