Word: pamphleted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandmother, sat in a Brooklyn court last week studying the faces of twelve Brooklyn men, middle-aged and elderly, who in turn eyed her. They were a Federal Jury sitting to decide whether she had committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, her supporters...
What the Jury Was Told. It was related, by consent of both parties, that Mrs. Dennett had mailed the pamphlet. The question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...
...could hope that an hour's meeting might give any specific or personal advice on an affair of such breadth. Plenty of sources are ready for the Freshman seeking counsel: the pamphlet which has been given him, his Freshman Advisor, the heads of the various departments all supply advice and information. If this morning he learns what concentration means, the purpose of the meeting is accomplished. In the last analysis it remains up to each student to gather together the facts of the subject and weigh them for himself. More than fostering a realization of this the meeting is unlikely...
Loss of the student committee leaves the Freshmen with numerous sources of sound advice on the subject of a field of concentration. Besides the services of their faculty advisors and the department heads, the men may still consult their student advisors informally. In addition, Freshmen will receive a pamphlet of reprints from articles appearing in the CRIMSON which discusses the departments of concentration and provides the electing student a comprehensive view of the fields from which he must make his choice. Further assistance seems not only unnecessary, but a tempting prop to the occasional man who would make his decision...