Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considering what you get out of it, you certainly spend an awful lot of time in college," was the opinion of Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, when interviewed for the CRIMSON. "I have no doubt that college is beneficial to some, but if, as it appears to me, the aim of the majority of men is to make money, it is a great waste of time...
...contacts and experience college is supposed to give by going out into life right off." Mr. Darrow said he did not wish to be dogmatic on the subject of college education for those who had the time to gather it, "but," he added, "if you are out to make money you are throwing your time away at college...
Asked whether or not he believed the Harvard Business School to be an asset to a young man entering business, Mr. Darrow expressed great admiration for the Business and Law Schools, but remarked, "To my mind a man has a definite bent in his nature for some activity, and if it is for business he can get along without the extra training, while if it isn't he won't get anything...
...Clarence Darrow, Judge Ben Lindsey, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, Rupert Hughes, William Allen White, John Dewey, Alexander Meiklejohn and Loredo Taft...
Among those vexed by this decision, which in some respects seemed evasive, were Justice McKinney, the dissenter, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan who, 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...