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...charge often levelled against the Princeton undergraduate by outsiders--namely, that he is cast into a certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication...
...whose work was essentially creative and its success was directly responsible to his own initiative and ability. At the present time however, the factory laborer has no personal interest in the job itself and looks to it solely as the source of his income. The creative element in machine work has been sacrificed for the sake of efficiency and the result is evident both in the quality of the products and the character of the employed...
...Frederic March, he gave a caricature of John Barrymore that was so high-spirited and frankly satirical that he practically swept the play off its feet every time he made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero of the love element, fortunately not very important, was best characterized by a remark of a young lady in the audience who remarked in a loud tone as he first appeared on the screen, "Wait until she sees him!" The surprise could not have been over-whelmingly pleasant...
Radio debating necessitates a new technique. Emphasis will naturally center on the expression of personality through the medium of the voice alone in an attempt to replace the loss of the visible element. But this fact should serve as an added attraction to increase activity in debating...
...with insanity. Rose, the girl he loves, by demonstrations of her deep love and faith, in him succeeds in driving out his inhibitions and restoring his self confidence. The plot is not involved nor is it reduced in its simplicity to an entire dependence on the human will. The element of fate plays its own part as expressed by the stroke of the forked serpent from the cloud...