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Local Boy Makes Good (First National) is the familiar anecdote* about a bespectacled and dazed collegian who, to his own surprise and the chagrin of his cronies, succeeds in an amorous enterprise...
...collegian is Joe E. Brown, whose strange face, rasping voice and alligator mouth enchant some cinemaddicts, embarrass others...
...players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank Shields, im- mensely tall, convivial and handsome, Roxbury graduate; Sidney Wood, a yellow-haired, wiry, California youth, with a delicate physique but strong wrists and forearms; and Clifford Sutler, a cherub-faced collegian from New Orleans, with self-consciously graceful but effective ground strokes...
...pros and cons of its observance aside, it seems unfortunate that college traditions of that type should be taken so seriously as to require abolishment. The presence of such social amenities would form a pleasant part of college life if sophistication were not swallowed so naively. When the collegian grows cynical about his cynicism, more distrustful of his irony, and more worldly than his worldliness he will live of being smart in the old way and take up shorts, roller skating, marbles, and go from house to house impishly ringing door-bells under the guise of a New Radical Movement...
...Many a collegian recollects similar sweepstakes: on length of sermons in chapel, on combinations of hymn numbers, etc., etc. Yale students in the undergraduate architecture course given by genial, pudgy, goateed Dean Everett Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts once made use of his predilection for the expression tour de force (feat of strength) by getting up pools on its daily occurrence in his lectures...