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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American mobocracy, having destroyed all personal tyrants, delights to impose the tyranny of custom upon itself. The latest outrage is a strict order that all good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another...
Arthur Woods '92 will probably succeed Roy A. Haynes as national prohibition commissioner if the latest reports from Washington are founded on definite information...
...once, Collier's Weekly, which has long been suspected of liberal or even reforming intentions has disclosed its hand. Mankind, from the cradle onward, is to be remodeled by a page of inspired precepts, according to the latest issue. Among other duties, man is to "help and protect the weak, the suffering, the young, and the old, and dumb animals"--a notable climax! Who will hereafter revolt, when in his youth he is taught to "respect all who have more wisdom, and to reverence all that is good...
...Plea for the Emancipation of Our Culture from Well-Meaning Commercialism" is Mr. John Jay Chapman's latest contribution to the body of literature aimed at the conduct of American Universities. Although his charges are by no means novel, they have gained wide publicity through the action of Messrs. Bates and Blanchard in filing a petition with the Massachusetts Legislature for an investigation of the state of affairs at Harvard...
...latest issue of the Journal of American Judicature Society, under the heading The Grand Jury -a Venerable Nuisance, contains a severe editorial criticism of the grand jury system. Quoting from an article by one Eugene Stevenson (8 Journal of Criminal Law 715), it says: "The grand jury works in secret and therefore very few intelligent critics can see enough of the operation to appreciate how rude, clumsy and inefficient it is. It is the largest most ignorant, most irresponsible ,and oftentimes most partisan tribunal known to our law, and it sits and adjudicates with closed doors...