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...Clean Sport for the Laundries...
...thought that sport writers would be justified in using some such term as the above was quite enough to arouse ire in the breasts of undergraduates when Professor East's program was first outlined. The misleading reports in various newspapers yesterday contributed to this resentment. To follow the establishment of a great and very materialistic Business School with a huge and very practical School or Dirt Farming is a development they do not relish. It now appears that the suggestion is not as wild and impractical as it at first appeared...
Interwoven in this uneven melodrama is the suggestion, to be expected, of men being the sport of hidden strings of fate and passion. But sometimes, as in the actual marionette show put upon the stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail...
Died. Walter Camp, 66, football expert, father of the "daily dozen"; in Manhattan, of heart disease (see SPORT...
Died. Zep, mammoth black bear, mascot of the Passaic, N. J., High School Basket Ball Team (TIME, Feb. 16, SPORT); at Wayne, N. J. His team had rejoiced in 159 straight victories. His skin will be converted into...