Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...
...Kitty gives last lecture to tearful audience which jams Harvard 5. May 4: Council reports on scholarships and Student Employment. Warns of overemphasis of pure scholarship and neglect of general leadership and personality development. May 7: Harvard severs boxing relations with Yale over dispute. May 15: Winsauer chosen Ivy Orator. '36 Album released. Red Book released. May 20: Cahners and Miller named to speak at Tercentenary. Melone named '37 Album head. Ray Dennett named PBH secretary. May 21: Melone, Gibson, Bilodeau, Dubiel, Hedblom, Bowditch, Allen, Keppel, and Dampeer elected to '36-'37 Student Council. May 22: '39 Confidential Guide appears...
Meantime Mr. Kent did not neglect his social life. In 1906 he married a Philadelphia socialite named Mabel Lucas, who is a good friend of old Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury. For years the Kents have been going to Bar Harbor every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
From such a beginning, it is possible that the ultimate goal of an almost entirely self-governing and self-contained Class organization can be reached. If that status is maintained, it will be impossible for professors to neglect their younger students again and the mental disorder of the novice in Cambridge will be greatly quieted...
Although Professor Langer has done nothing to deserve dissection, he is too positive an exhibit to neglect. He has learned the fundamentals that can be taught. He has benefitted from teachers like Archie Coolidge. Yet this preparation alone could not have stirred his classes to intellectual acrobatics nor augured him a prospective future as a Harvard figure besides the Briggs, the Shalers, and the James. His career demonstrates that the man is fully as important as any standards which can be devised to produce teachers...