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...this is more or less necessary, and some of it is--for a strong boy--highly salutary; but I venture to say that hardly any of the conditions surrounding our Freshmen are incapable of improvement, and some of them need very prompt and very thorough-going improvement. It is also worth pointing out that it is the graduates of the pri- vate schools who find these conditions most upsetting, and it for them that the transition from school to college is most critical
...Marion, Ohio, the fellow townspeople of a late President were interested in a boy and a girl, the grandchildren of a late widow of that President, who have inherited a considerable fortune. The children are George Neely DeWolfe, 12, and Jeanne DeWolfe, 15. They live with their mother and their stepfather, Roscoe D. Mezger, a grocery salesman. Their father was Marshall Eugene DeWolfe, a son of Mrs. Harding by her first marriage. The greater part of Mrs. Harding's estate, estimated at $500,000, was left in trust for them. But never were they guests at the White House...
Greed. Eric Von Stroheim is the boy that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
...stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them on the campus ... Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile hemen, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted straightway to a prominent position as bond-chaser in Lee Higginson's well-known counting-house . . . They [the s. v. he-men] are fed warmed-over editorials by Doc. Crane about 'Jesus on the Bleachers' and 'Saint Paul on the Field of Battle,' and this...
...over-emphasize text-books instead of teachers is a mistake. But the thought of college entrance examinations as an oppressive spectre, keeping the secondary school boy away from all knowledge, is absurb. If anything, the private school man inclines too much to underrate them. It is true that because of the general "speeding-up" of colleges, private schools have had to shift from the task of educating to that of preparing. Whether the private schools can educate and at the same time prepare for college, and whether colleges really educate, are questions on which one man's opinions are just...