Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidently not the merits of the Sacco-Vanzetti case which most deeply divide the people of this community. It is the question of the respect owed to the findings of our courts. One great churchman publicly rebukes another for suggesting that the case be reviewed by an executive commission: he characterizes that suggestion as an impertinence. Such an expression can only come from deeply stirred feeling, a feeling that when our courts are under attack from agitators those who have a decent regard for them should stand together in their defence. It is because of the consideration one must feel...
There are obvious motives favoring this process of reduction in the number of judges. The growing volume of work laid upon our courts, and the increasing costs of criminal procedure, forbid all needless prodigality in the expending of Judicial intelligence on criminal cases. But it is a question of great moment whether, in thus reducing the factor
When confronted with the question of whether he did not think that Harvard, the center for America's sophisticated youth, was hardly the place from which to choose the actors. Mr. Williams smiled and said, "No, the Harvard type is just what they want. With his perfectly impervious expression of indifference and his deep resouceful eye, the Crimson undergraduate is just the man for Hollywood...
...debates are to be "friendly discussions," it was announced. They are the outgrowth of a meeting of Professor Mather and Dr. Stratton in Cambridge last fall in the Phillips Brooks House when they discussed the question, "Resolved, That the theory of evolution is incompatible with the Christian religion." The debates to be held in May will be a further discussion of this question...
...distant from the adjoining sidewalks. Having thus been balked in our attempt to add a see and bit of sunshine to an otherwise tepid stay in the metropolis we returned to these so much sadder and wiser that to deliver a worthy discuses today is utterly out of the question...