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...Football Background. Interviewed in Manhattan, Dr. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of football-famed Notre Dame University, said: "Behind a great football team there must be an intellectual and moral background, and while a first-rate college can function successfully without football, a good football team always goes with a good college. Athletes look to the greatness of a college and are inspired to uphold its intellectual and moral prestige." Soft Drinks, Sandwiches. In commenting on his announcement that henceforth the University of Washington will eliminate courses of a vocational or trade nature, said President Matthew Lyle Spencer...
...Your Back (Fox). Unlike most dramas of mother-love, this has a legitimate theme and an interesting background. The theme is an exposition of how the plans an ambitious parent makes for her son are rejected because they do not coincide with the way he has mapped out his own life. The background, decoratively handled, is a dressmaking business built up by Mother Irene Rich. Her specialty is giving show girls clothes on credit, knowing they will wheedle the money out of their sweethearts. Her plans for her son go to seed when he falls in love with a girl...
Coming, however, as they do in the fall of the last year in college these tests do not realize their purpose. Instead of providing a background they cap the scene with an anti-climax. They are too late...
...improve educational systems, the Authors examinations were instituted with the support of a plausable theory. The study of any particular period of the world's literature requires, if it is to be at all thorough, some acquaintance with the outstanding masterpieces of other ages. To supply students with this background for their special fields the Authors examinations were made a part of the so-called Divisionals...
...examinations would be realized. Many factors, as the CRIMSON will later point out, combine to make the opening of the second year the ideal time for these examinations. The present state of affairs with outside tutoring and picayune spot questions only twists into a farce the "cultural background" which reads so nicely in the catalogues...