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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come, but H. G. Wells sees it approaching along with the complete domination of the business men. So educators hasten to justify their product to the new monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...geratest problems," said Doctor Hopkins, "which the American college faces in the present day is to preserve its function as an educational institution to an extent that shall give its men the proper outlook on life and shall steel their wills and harden their minds against the tendencies toward materialism which are bred in a period of so great economic surplus as is the present period in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Halliday then related several curious incidents while carefully drawing a thin black line, darkening his eyebrows. "When the killing occurred in a New York performance a real doctor considered it his duty to try and save the wounded man's life; he left the stage as pale as a sheet and got a terrific race from the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master Magician of "The Spider" Laments Seriousness of Boston Audience--Fears Harvard Men Will Kid Him in Dark | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ? The Theatre Guild offers a glittering revival of Bernard Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Author in appearance, is the shaggy counterpart of a country doctor. This is not unseemly; his grandfather was a doctor, his father, Professor Johann Schnitzler, a once famed throat specialist. Author Arthur Schniztler studied medicine, became an M. D., lectured on ailments of the throat, at the Poliklinik in Vienna. One of his early published works was a paper on Nervous Diseases of the Voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daybreak | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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