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Some acid critics accuse the movie writers of lacking imagination. These censorious writers assert that hackneyed types and situations are constantly reused, and that when some one starts an idea like the adventures of a vamp or the mischances of a comedian in a pie shop, for years we have nothing else. This view overlooks the truly startling originality of the profession when it deals with classic literary materials. Then its imagination shows boundless liberty or at least takes boundless liberties. New York Evening Post
...rights have been trampled upon and that they must have what belongs to them at the expense perhaps of long litigation. The lawyer in the first place is a buffer, because after he has heard the story he tells them of the various steps that must be taken to assert their rights and the length of time required for each, and he makes them understand that whatever the outcome of the litigation may be, the end is not likely to be reached for some years, the result is doubtful and the expense certain. He may be obliged to tell them...
...determination of every Crimson runner to live up to the expectations of Coaches Bingham and Farrell will best be judged by a visit to the Stadium track, or by consulting the opinions of former members of University track teams who have been present at practice lately, all of whom assert that more spirit and enthusiasm is being shown than at any time in the past few years. "The men have been working for the Yale meet all winter and spring", said one former Crimson star yesterday. "And I think we stand a fine chance of winning Saturday. However, the student...
...Four per cent of them would be willing to ask a dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...
...Harvard man does not mean that one has gone through that fraternizing period of sham democracy in which cane rushes and greased poles have stimulated the spirit of brother-hood; but it does mean a respect for scholarship, for the right of the individual to assert himself in his own way; a feeling for that continuity of achievement, free of "isms", which passes over into progress...