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Students in large courses which embody several sections often comment upon the difference in marking and instruction readily discernable between any two of the various divisions. Not infrequently undergraduates change sections in order to "get a man" under whom they "can pass"; or less often transfer to a section where they "will learn something". A similar phenomenon is also noted in the case of half-courses, one of which continues the work of the other. Although the work of the second semester is usually started with practically the same subject, the identical lecturer, and about the same students...
Your recent editorial comment on the consideration of motion pictures as a class record by the Junior class at Yale is distinctly gratifying, in that it shows an appreciation of the qualities belonging peculiarly to the cinema record...
...Punch for Judy" was written by Philip Barry, Yale '19 and a graduate student at the University 1919-20; and made a tremendous hit on the tour just completed by the Workshop. "A comedy which deserves a future" was the comment of one paper; "A play with a real punch" the praise of another; while the New York Herald said that this production "turned the Harvard audience Crimson with laughter...
...methodical reviewer will notice with satisfaction the improved quality of the paper used in the 1920-21 Register, he may comment with satisfaction on the excellence of the University Calendar, and he will not, of course, fall to congratulate the undergraduate editors on their accomplishment. In sterner mood, he will, mayhap, point out that misprints are not wholly absent, forgetting how great must have been the task of proof-reading the book. Certainly, when all else is said, he will agree that the Register is something to be owned by everyone who hopes to be an intelligent part...
Moreover, the book has one distinction unusual in catalogues, registers, directories, and other books of reference. It is statistical, to be sure, it deals with lists, names and addresses, relieved only occasionally by illustrations and editorial comment, but, unlike most books of its class it is one most of us will want not only to consult but also to read. The man who read the dictionary learned much, but was annoyed because his book changed the subject so often. We who read the Register learn quite as much so far as our little college world is concerned, and we find...