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...accumulation of facts and rarely are they concerned with the implications of these upon their personal life. Content to amass a rich store of factual data most students see in this process only a means of either pleasantly spanning the years of their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values in life are important, and how they fit into the plan of the universe are questions that are neglected either from sheer indifference or a failing to appreciate their significance...
Without any doubt this standard will prevent Harvard from achieving fame in the Rose Bowl--a fact that is little to be regretted. We are here "to develop a broad cultural background" rather than to win a place in the Who's Who of athletic annals. The one is incidental to the larger purpose of the other...
Most audiences will spot the murderer easily, long before the Inspector (C. Aubrey Smith) breaks down a mendacious confession, obtains a truthful one, and benignly subscribes to the general idea that the killer was only a slightly foolish person who sought to escape a stuffy background...
Limehouse Blues (Paramount). Putting Anna May Wong and George Raft in a picture with a Limehouse background was a good idea to start with but it is the only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite...
...lectures," said Dr. Fainsod, "will discuss the history of the Third, or Communist International, against the background of earlier efforts at social internationalism. The first two lectures will focus attention of the challenge to traditional loyalties involved in the effort to create an international labor community based on class. The remaining lectures will trace the transformation of the Communist international...