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...possibilities of the talking movie are being overrated, in my opinion", he continued, "for I have found in my teaching experience that the most important element in teaching is the personal touch of the instructor...
...Predictions have been made that pictures would do away with the lesser known educators and leave only those on top to do the teaching but these predictions have failed to take into account the personal element. After all, it is better for a student to get personal attention from a second-rate instructor than impersonal lectures from the highest man in the field. As historical milestones talking films have an assured future but as a medium of education their future is limited to a large degree...
...Frank Morgan as M. Topaze apparently does not mind the fact that his role is basically unbelievable. He makes the figure by turns pitiful and ridiculous and frequently almost real. It is perhaps the most enjoyable of his many fine performances. Phoebe Foster is sleek and chiselled, a decorative element without which the play would not have been properly translated...
Since the first of January, the Journal has carried not less than a half-page a day crammed with news characteristically bold-stroked, free-swinging and Hearstian. As a result of its findings, the sober element of Atlantic citizenry have banded together, led by the Chamber of Commerce, to run Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. and his henchmen out of town...
...this event, it is, as always, difficult to pick the winners, because of the element of chance which inevitably enters into a race so short. A. L. Watkins '31, who won the event last year has been recently recovering from an injured leg, and is therefore an unknown quantity as far as this meet is concerned. F. V. Nissen '30 who got a third last week at the B. A. A. games, and J. B. Hawes '32 are both fast men as well as Captain Mason. Dartmouth will have Stevens, who took second last year, and Cornell's hopes...