Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mayor Fitzgerald's recent suppression of "The Easiest Way" brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...
...Without doubt all of our readers have seen the very humorous drawing to which this refers, and, consequently, are aware that the two characters are not "linked arm in arm" and that the drawing is labelled "Historic" not "Human Affinities." The bald and unqualified statement that the issue was suppressed by President Lowell is a bald and unqualified falsehood. The remainder of the item is a cleverly worded implication that the Lampoon's drawing does not conform to a very rigorous sense of decency. Incidentally, there is no mention of the broad black band that occupies a large portion...
...narrowness, we fear the author of yesterday's communication acquired writer's cramp. Certainly there is no attempt at ridicule, and we doubt if any one of that galaxy of fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board...
...Boston Hockey Club defeated the Cliffside team of Ottawa at the Boston Arena on Saturday, by the score of 4 to 3. The game was hard-fought and exciting with the outcome in doubt until the end. The Canadians were faster skaters, but this advantage was offset by the superior team-play of the Hockey Club. For the Cliffsides McKinley, at goal, did the best work, while Sortwell and Hicks excelled for the Hockey Club...
...16th Century." This large number of courses on so many different countries and epochs serves to render all the more striking the absence of an adequate course on the Civil War. The only course on this period is a reading one with very strict admission requirements. There is without doubt a real demand for a course which treats the Civil War in a manner similar to Professor Channing's excellent course on the Revolution...