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Although the Syracuse Varsity which comes alone to represent the Orange, has had only one race this Spring, its length and a half victory early in the season, over what was considered a powerful Navy eight, has marked it an element to be reckoned with tomorrow. The fact that Stroke Lombardi in three years has never set the pace for a losing boat is a fair indication of what kind of crews Syracuse has produced in the past, and what it is capable of against Cornell and Harvard...
...book, there passes before the reader a concise, clear view of Sing Sing today. And in the description of his $3,000,000 plant one discovers the secret of Warden Lawes's success. Mechanical details of organization are duly attended to, but predominant throughout is the personal, the human element. In focusing his attention, Lawes turns almost involuntarily from administration to the individual, the unhappy "con," fighting his way back to decent society. Consequently one is not surprised when the third section of the work unrolls to find therein a passionately sincere plea for more intelligent treatment of prisoners...
Jack Oakie is the loyal friend who makes it his life work to help "Speed" snap out of the doldrums after the crash. Oakie is right in his element here and the two best sequences are rough-house scenes between the two pals. The female members of the cast fail to show much initiative, moving mechanically at the director's command. The audience remains well-pleased, however, as the story runs smoothly and maintains its happy-go-lucky atmosphere throughout...
...Newsprint is the feminine element in the pressroom. It is never alike twice. . . . There must be a kindly discipline exerted over it. ... When a sheet of newsprint breaks in the press it raises hell, just like a woman getting hysterical...
...this course can be very fascinating since it will introduce him to that portion of our language which, though it represents surprisingly little of our contemporary vocabulary, is still its course and center. Little do we realize that in our conversation we are constantly using and repeating this Teutonic element of our speech in our commonest and homeliest words and phrases...