Word: seriously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Punctilious, sensitive Leslie Howard strikes a proper balance between the comic and serious aspects of Peter's career. Margalo Gillmore, late of the Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...self-laudatory in his new found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part of one's time to serious pursuits, then unstinted enthusiasm in football must decline...
Antioch College with its policy of practical experience was the scene of a "leap week", at which time the young ladies of the institution overthrew the conventional male dominance and took matters into their own hands. Feeling that a time had come for a serious consideration of the problem of feminine control of social matters, the traditional masculine yoke was removed and the girls were given their chance. They were allowed to request the company of a favored gentleman "without the least embarrassment", and to enjoy generally the "freedom" of masculine life. The dances had a well-filled stag...
What is the difference between a socialist and a communist? The Vagabond is not asking a conundrum, he is raising a perfectly serious question the exact answer of which puzzles him. Aside from the fact that one associates a socialist with studio teas and a communist with bombs and whiskers, is there any real distinction between the two? Are socialists just communists who bathe regularly? These are all points which , frankly, confuse the Vagabond, and as he feels both these terms he is attending Professor Holcombe's lecture on "Socialism and Communism" at nine o'clock this morning...
...Harby, Jr. '33, Crimson full back, was outstanding for the losers. While his punting was not equal to that of Sampson, Dartmouth fullback, he shone consistently on the defense. Bernard Feins '33, Freshman right halfback who got in during the fourth quarter, was the only serious threat the Crimson possessed. He made several good gains, which were futile, however, when offside penalties followed. J. R. Leonard '33, right halfback whom Feins replaced, proved himself a stellar player on the offense...