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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention has been called to an article appearing on p. 19 of the Feb. 13 issue of TIME on the subject of "the lawyer's oath." Much has been said and written regarding the Hippocratic Oath of doctors and lawyers...
...American Association of Engineers recently prepared and adopted an oath for the engineering profession entitled "The Engineer's Vow of Service." This is the only oath written thus far for the engineer. Because we believe that you will be interested in the Vow we are enclosing copy with this letter. We shall be pleased to receive your comments...
...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...
Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
True enough, most of this has been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...