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...believe that not only will the Harvard Club membership be increased, but that a more genuine bond of attachment between graduate and college will be facilitated. Because of the extreme ease with which alumni can lose all contact with their college once relations are broken a graduate organization must depend for its complete success upon the maintenance and not the attempted resumption of such relations...
...University who have underwritten the expense of the School during its first three years, and will be confident of the success of the endowment drive for $2,000,000 which is to be undertaken. The School of the Public and International Affairs has great possibilities. Its usefulness will depend largely upon the sympathy of the faculty and the interest of the students enrolled in it. The curriculum will doubtless be extremely difficult, and the results should be proportionately worth while. We shall watch the progress of the School with sympathetic interest. --Daily Princetonian...
Burning Up (Paramount). The great difficulty with stories in which sport is used as a background against which a nice fellow and a knave compete for a girl, is that the big horse race, or prize fight, or poker game on which love and honor and the happy ending depend, is hard to photograph. Everything moves wonderfully up to a certain point, but after that one of two things must happen: either the spectator struggles with the technicalities of the selected background, or the director shirks the responsibilities of his climax, brushing through it with a shot of a crowd...
...dance was held and financial failure resulted. With such a precedent to face, along with a past unmistakably indicating a waning interest in a Junior dance, the action of the present Committee is very intelligent. Traditions, if it is possible to classify this function in this already crowded category, depend upon popular approval for their existence, and the lack of this approval is the ultimate cause for the present situation...
Their danger lies in their rotting concrete foundations. The concrete penetrates water-logged ground, but was not made impervious to water. Consequently water, especially where it carries chemicals like sulphates in solution, has reacted with the concrete to make a cement mush. The security of the buildings depend on the tenacity of the soil keeping the columns of soft concrete from spreading...