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...manner, taller and thinner in figure, less pretentious but nonetheless admired is Philadelphia's manager and part owner, Cornelius ("Connie Mack") McGillicuddy. He has gained fame through baseball -and baseball alone. He attends every game his Athletics play, invariably sits in the same place in the dugout, seldom raises his voice to command or correct. He last brought an American League pennant to Philadelphia in 1914, has since then watched his team fluctuate between the cellar and the next-to-top story. Meanwhile the masticating jaws of the fans in the ball park and of others all over...
...fact that undergraduate feeling, in general as well as in the particular instance of football, is almost universally grossly misinterpreted must be taken into consideration. Students seldom reach the heights of enthusiasm about anything, and they never stay on those heights for long. Whatever minor evils it causes as a temporary distraction, football certainly does not have and never can have a great enough hold on the undergraduate permanently to warp his point of view or seriously to interfere with his education...
Harvard men, reports the Boston Globe, go to Vassar as seldom as they can. Not that we've noticed this discrepancy or anything; but just to forewarn prospective-football audiences we think they ought to know the reason for the slight. It seems we are too active. We are apt to take them on long walks, a picnic, or a round of golf...
This sentiment seldom cloys because Ernest Truex gives the most serious, tender performance of his career and Marda Vanne as the wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...
...Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...