Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East Lynne. William Winter it was who remarked that this play has caused more tears than the Civil War. It was first produced 64 years ago, and through all the remaining years of the last century extracted weeps and hisses from our forefathers. They say that wandering companies still play the gaudy narrative in wayside opera houses. It is safe to say that Manhattan has not seen a production for 20 years...
...Souls" were not representative of the student body. And the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism took advantage of publicity to say that similar societies would be organized at other schools, specifically at Yale, whose charter provides that it shall "fit young men for service in church and civil state." The A. A. A. A. claims that many university professors are atheists...
...What caused more tears than the Civil...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...
...Brooks House. Dean Pound will discuss at length the relations of the church and the state, and the possibilities and place of religion in the practice of law. The questions of church interference in political affairs, the church's influence in securing or preventing legislation, and judicial pressure, both civil and criminal, exerted by ecclesiastical power, will be fully considered...