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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marxian remedy for poverty is a more equable distribution of the world's goods. But, the Neo-Malthusian replies, the least capable have the largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive...
...many cartoons have I drawn in my life? Well. I've been drawing an average of at least 300 a year, and I've been working about 30 years. That makes about 9,000 cartoon, call it 10,000, counting rough drafts and unused ideas and everything...
...title suggests, this little piece is the sister of "No, No, Nanette", which finally passed on to New York a year ago after everyone at Harvard had seen it at least once. The younger sister bears a close resemblance to the older one, and were it not for a few minor differences and the obvious time element, the two girls might almost be called twins...
...theatre arts of today, while Harvard goes happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, or awards a Ph. D. for a thesis about the influence of Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works of one dead three hundred years. Certainly Broadway this past winter has borne heartening...
...metropolis" or what not is enough to cause even the most stolid to think twice before deciding definitely not to stow away. The writing of this little tribute to insanity and mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played on the steamship company; at least by this party, but the excitement attendant upon such an event has completely upset our mental processes and we can think of nothing better to do than reminisce and wait for that nine weeks distant moment when we too shall join that vast company which goes down...