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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Lindsey reconcile this code with the Bible? He did not. "Those of my views which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wedlock | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...very interesting. Playwright Shaw seemed then an outrageous iconoclast, Actor Daly, his mouthpiece, a daring pioneer. When Mr. Shaw became a vogue, Arnold Daly lost some of his importance, as the introducer on the speaker's platform is obliterated by the lecturer who gets up to speak. He had some failures. He needed money (he had always spent copiously what he earned) and tried to get it in vaudeville, in the cinema. When he acted in George M. Cohan's The Tavern in 1920 people remembered what a good actor he could be. Last autumn he appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Daly | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...head of Harvard and the head of Cambridge will exchange greetings at 8.30 o'clock this morning. President Lowell will speak from the offices of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company on Oliver Street, Boston. He will deliver a prepared message to Vice-Chancellor Weekes. Weather conditions, and report last night indicated that the conversation would not be interrupted by static to any great extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Cambridge Heads Greet Each Other Across the Sea | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

Fitting indeed is the inaugurat ceremony attending the opening of the New England to London Transatlantic telephone service this morning. When President Lowell and Vice-Chancellor Weekes of Cambridge University speak to one another across the sea, the newest achievement of science will receive a fitting dedication. It is not that this most remarkable means of communication will benefit by the blessing of educational leaders in two countries; but rather that these same leaders can be relied upon to exchange greetings worthy to be remembered as the first vocal conversation between the New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOICES AND HANDS | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

Williston and Beale Speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

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