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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After expressing his deep sensitiveness to the honor and privilege of delivering the Godkin lecture, President Hibben began the actual body of the first division of his lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern...
...total of five talks to date has been given before approximately 1470 students, an average attendance of 294 per meeting. Whereas social service and cooperation with the worthy charitable and philanthropic organizations of the city is a praiseworthy endeavor of the Phillips Brooks House Association, and while it has often been energetically fostered at the Medical School, the Committee has invariably failed to develop it. As early as 1914, a year after the founding of the Medical School Society, the Chairman writes in his annual report: "Notwithstanding our disappointment here this year, we feel that this detachment of social service...
...cartoon is a sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...
...directors felt obliged to do this because their own conduct has been slovenly. Value of the Board of Trade depends upon public confidence in the honesty of its members, and all too often that honesty has been doubted. The Federal Government already pretends to supervise transactions on the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Illinois legislature last week sought laws to regulate the Board, similar to the laws by which New York legislators control the New York Stock Exchange. Board members hope that they can tighten up their own already existing rules and thus avoid the further fussings of lawmakers...
...call these writers merely imitators is to do them an injustice," he continued. "I have to fight the thing myself. Often, I go out of my way, avoiding words I would otherwise naturally use, to try not to suggest Mencken. I admire Mencken very much, but I know he has his faults. What I write, I feel to be a sincere and original effort, not an attempt to follow a path someone else has opened...