Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was no appeal to House loyalty. Squash teams there were; and informal football and basketball teams were organized for single games with Dunster's "old and traditional rival", Lowell. There is no great emphasis on House activities. The dance last night, for instance, was run in the most casual manner; nobody was urged to come. Observers will probably say that all this is just a manifestation of traditional "Harvard indifference". Whatever it is, the phenomenon exists...
...Poetry Room were to be open during the mornings as well as during the afternoons its value for the casual reader would be greatly increased. As its chief function is to make available a fine library of poetry to all who wish to come and browse, it should not deliberately close its doors at a time when it would be most used. The denizen of the house plan must traverse many dreary leagues before reaching the security of Widener's shadow. It is only during the morning, when he is of necessity drawn to the Yard because of classes, that...
...Vagabond has always looked upon this explanation as rather too casual and flippant. It is true that much of his manifold works seem to spring from a brain clouded by the vapors of an addled egg or weighted with the soddeness of haggis, but there are flashing moments which can only be accounted for by the finest, most digestable port. True these vibrant moments when they happen to be historical as well are seldom correct, but who really cares. It is just as pleasant to dwell upon the imagined death of Danton as it is to come to grips with...
Wayward (Paramount). The casual cinemaddict will be vaguely bothered by trying to remember whether he has either read the story or seen the picture before. Actually he has done both. There has been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy...
...Duerr of the Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...