Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has always been in the ideal university education a certain demarcation between intelligence and integrity. A proctor is a proctor and a teacher is a teacher, and confusion of their respective spheres would be nothing short of disastrous. Any suggestion that concerns the question of the tutor's intellectual leadership of the student must be welcomed. That the problem of securing and of keeping men competent to undertake the mental salvation of undergraduates has not as yet been completely solved need hardly be stated. But the problem of finding men who can also undertake moral and spiritual salvation...
...than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes...
With Justice McKinney dissenting, Justices Chambliss and Cook and Chief Justice Green decided that the anti-evolution statute was constitutionally sound. All four were unanimous that Teacher Scopes was not guilty, as declared by the jury at Dayton, since the trial judge (John T. Raulston) had been in error in fining Teacher Scopes $100 (only a jury can impose a fine greater than $50 in Tennessee and the Scopes jury fixed no fine) ; that the only way to correct this error was through a retrial; but that "all of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging...
Among those vexed by this decision, which in some respects seemed evasive, were Justice McKinney, the dissenter, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan who, with Lawyer Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, had defended Teacher Scopes. Lawyer Darrow, resting in Mobile, Ala., held his peace but Lawyer Malone spoke out: "We did not go there to save Scopes from an excessive fine. Nobody cared whether he was fined $100 or $1,000. . . . Our object in going to Tennessee was first, to expose the ignorance and intolerance which had produced such a law and, secondly, to test its constitutionality by ultimately...
...Abraham's Bosom. Eugene O'Neill brought the Greenwich Village Provincetown Theatre to theatrical, artistic prominence. When he went "uptown," the Provincetown came upon evil days. Along comes another Moses to lead them out of debt. He is Paul Green, young North Carolina teacher, author, playwright...