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What causes such ridiculous antics in the name of public morality? It Chaplin's films had in them anything which the strictest Puritan could object to, the municipal censors might be justified. But no evil that he does lives on the screen. His pictures are clean in addition to being funny. When "Searing Kisses", "Bachelor Husbands", and "The Gilded Bed" are allowed, it seems strangely paradoxical that Chaplin's off-stage actions should be considered subversive of popular morality...
...scientific. An inquiry is begun, a survey is made, expert investigators are appointed, reports are published and subject to review, funds are collected upon the basis of these findings, and the college is started upon a declared basis of action the terms of which are subject to the strictest scrutiny and the conditions of which are under the control of competent observers. The results of these experiments should, within a few years, be available to the educational world and several questions to which there is today no adequate reply should be answered...
...Gladstone founded a great tradition, since observed by many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak a language of the highest and strictest principle and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...there more freedom in the modern German school system than in the old?" Asked Dr. Kellermann in concluding his lecture. "The answer is decidedly yes, but we follow the word of Nietzsche, our greatest champion of liberty who said: "Strictest mental discipline is the first condition for the formation of a free personality...
...Probably the finest chairs of the period in existence. [For once the man in the frock coat, F. A. Chapman, auctioneer, was speaking with the strictest accuracy.] I think I cannot do less than start them at $10,000.... Five?... All right, we all of us have to get warmed up... Six?... You are too generous, Sir.... Who'll give me seven?... I have seven. Eight?. . . Will nobody... Oh, many thanks. I am your debtor, madame; you owe me nothing.... And now nine?... I have nine; I have ten... ten thousand dollars. That was, I think, my first suggestion.... Eleven...