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...advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
...Wayne B. Munn," said Coach W. E. Lewis of the University wrestling team is physically more than we had anticipated. He is a splendid type of the big man, and he has brawn, not beef. He has a charming personality, a clean cut American. He talks like a trained thinker, probably because of his college education...
...ridding themselves of such a great thinker, the Presbyterian Church doubtless feels that is safe-guarding public morals. What it has really done is to shut out the humanizing effect of unhampered religious thinking, binding the congregations closer and closer to the worn out dongmas of past centuries. Right or wrong, Dr. Fosdick's has been a new voice in a land of monotones...
...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
...mortifying, bitter truth that the quiet and close thinker in the White House, just elected President as the Republican nominee, is a better Democrat in many essentials, more in accord with the foundation principles of the Democratic Party, than many men who have obtained high and honorable places as ostensible Democrats...