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Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes...
...members of the club will go on a short tour over the week-end of Washington's birthday. On March 3 a concert will be given at Plymouth and on March 7, the club will sing in illustration of a lecture by Dr. Davison at the Temple Israel Lyceum...
...present at the meeting he held there, and this statement is not so. It is true that there were rumors of disturbance before the meeting. On the afternoon of it the Student Council posted signs about the campus urging fair play. This was observed. The meeting began in Lampson Lyceum. Jordan entered with Professor William Lyon Phelps who courageously had promised to introduce him. As they mounted the platform, Mr. Phelps said (with pardonable nervousness), "We who are about to die, salute you."* This mollified the dogs of war, and Jordan began his speech. The crowding in the hall...
Also in London, for six weeks beginning in May at the Lyceum Theatre, a Russian Opera Company, starring Basso Feodor Chaliapin, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, whose famed pills were once advertised by a parody of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing...
Died. George Henry Hathaway, 86, president since 1903 of Redpath Lyceum Bureau Inc., one of the oldest chautauqua bureaus; after a fall last fortnight; in Boston, Mass. He booked as lecturers Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humorist Mark Twain, Preacher Henry Ward Beecher; Singers Liza Lehmann and Lillian Nordica...