Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negroes, however, do not forget. John Brown struck to free them before even Lincoln's name was great in the land. Nor does Lawyer Clarence Darrow forget. He approves of his father and John Brown having been friends in early Ohio. He helped lead last week's pilgrimage and made the woods ring with emotional oratory...
...Clarence Darrow, speaking to an audience of students that filled every seat of the Paine Hall and lined itself five deep across the back of the room, scored our modern legal, criminal and educational systems. Going to the very heart of his subject, he discussed crime in every phase of its development. Taking up the definition of crime first he showed how indeterminate a quality it is. He then passed to the punishment of crime and showed its accompanying ill effects. In concluding he placed all his stress on the training of children, offering them proper vocational guidance so that...
Going on Mr. Darrow showed that criminals, besides being poor were al- most always poorly educated. With our present system, he showed, great numbers of young people are forced through the required number of schools years and are then thrown, without any means of support out into the world to shift for themselves. Quite naturally a great number of young people who were born morons are not fitted for intellectual work with out the necessary training they are unable to do other skilled work, and soon sink to a position in which they can only kep alive by petty larceny...
Throughout his speech, Mr. Darrow showed that he was not dealing with crimes of passion and in closing, be stated that no machinery of law would ever be able to stop them. The natural conclusion as to whether capital punishment should be enforced or not was left to the listener
Professor K. F. Mather, of the Department of Geology, will introduce the speaker. Professor Mather was called as a witness by Mr. Darrow in his defense of John Thomas Scopes in the evolution trial in Tennessee, but his testimony was not allowed...