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...lectures will deal with important social and economic problems of the day. As far as possible they will be arranged in a logical order so that the student who attends regularly may feel that he is in a way receiving instruction similar to that given in college courses on these subjects. The topics discussed will include: The tariff, wages, immigration, poverty and housing, parks and playgrounds, the drink problem, taxation, marriage and divorce, political questions and socialism...
...discussing the problem of the enemies of moral and political progress, Judge Lindsey illustrated his remarks by a number of examples that had come to his attention as judge on the bench, drawing analogies between the young culprits of the Juvenile Court and the full-fiedged crooks and grafters of municipal and state politics...
Today's lecture is the first of a series to be given under the auspices of a committee of the Faculty substantially the same as that which conducted the lectures last winter on "The Social Problem and its Remedies." By a vote of the Corporation these lectures will be open only to students of the University...
...Outsiders" is different from Mr. Klein's other plays and must be judged by different standards. "The Lion and the Mouse", "The Third Degree" and "The Gamblers" all deal with some specific phase of a contemporary American problem. But "The Outsiders" has no such special interest. In fact the question of whether "The Outsiders" get in is forgotten in our anxiety to find whether or not young Blakely gets...
That is, one who goes to see this play should regard it as a story, not a lesson, an evening's entertainment, not a dramatized American problem. Mr. Klein is writing not for the analytical critic but for the story-loving public...