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...parlor admitted piracy and closed its doors, sounding the death knell for all similar organizations, for in accordance with the decision, future tutoring, based on class-lecture and text notes, would be held by the courts as a violation of the copyright laws. of the last power that stands between us and complete isolation in a fascist world. The more threat imposed by such a world can check the hopes of liberal democracy: could even destroy it as effectively as war itself...
...university," Dr. Butler began, "has become with the passing years a powerful public servant in the field of liberty." But his next words were to belie that statement. Once again, as he had in 1918, Dr. Butler was sounding the death knell of academic freedom at Columbia. "Before and above academic freedom of any kind or sort comes the right and obligation of the university itself to pursue its high ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation, to lessen its influence or to lower its authority...
...shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators, H. V. Kaltenborn, Raymond Gram Swing...
...Great Depression sank in, many a layman and many a sociologist pondered on what the next ten years would bring. Rightly they foresaw a decade of struggle, of widespread distress, of mounting tension. Hopefully some of them dreamed of a return of the bull market whose knell was sounded when the clang of the bell ended trading on Oct. 24. Gloomily, more of them saw ruin ahead, riots, revolution, convulsions and crisis. On schedule the tests of U. S. strength arrived: unemployment increased, banks failed, riots shook the country...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...