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...prospects of a fairly lucrative and respectable profession more enticing than a life devoted to human welfare, whatever the personal sacrifice. One can hardly expect any other attitude in an age when material success is so highly prized, but the situation does not tend toward keeping up the high-grade morale demanded by the Medical Profession...
...purpose of the changes is to emphasize the mastery of a subject rather than the acquisition of a certain grade, and will put the greater part of the responsibility for understanding the subject in the hands of the student. The new scholastic requirements will permit a student to be admitted to the University only after he has successfully completed the entire work of the Freshman year...
...Each student at Yale shall select not more than five courses each year and junior and seniors whose work is of quality grade may, with the written approval of the class officer or dean, elect less than five courses...
...student will be recommended for the degree only when he has completed successfully the work of all four years and has received a grade of 27 or better in at least six courses...
...made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict...