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...great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger in this aspect of modern religion as there is in the problem of tenant farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort of traveling parson who would serve several missionary stations." And he advocated a minimum wage scale for rural clergy...
...other meetings were held by the society. At the first one District Attorney Emory R. Buckner of New York spoke on the law from the standpoint of a practicing lawyer. Judge Julian W. Mack of the United States Circuit Court gave the second of these informal talks on lawyers as a judge sees them. Langdell Center was crowded for each of these meetings, the total attendance being...
Ethical propositions are usually less involved than those of theology. If a practice has a good purpose and if it is reasonably certain that its practical consequences will be generally valuable, then it ought to be adopted as a principle of conduct. From this standpoint, what can be said of birth control...
...American morality on and off the films, is quite all right. They are the most straightlaced people in the universe. Anything that gets put over in America we shan't criticize from the standpoint of morality...
...little knowledge of the details of legal practice that they are apt to misunderstand the scope of a court's power and consequently the effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally affect the lives of accused persons and the fairness and adequacy of the administration of justice