Word: dean
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Based on Meyer Levin's novel about the LeopoldLoeb case, Compulsion is a well-wrought film which manages to steer around the usual stereotyped situations of college rebellion, detective work, and courtroom emotion. Primarily responsible are Dean Stockwell and Bradford Stillman as the paranoid Judd Steiner and the schizoid Artie Straus, and Orson Welles, who carries the latter part of the film on his sizeable bulk while playing the defense attorney (Clarence Darrow was responsible for life imprisonment sentences rather than the gallows for his clients...
...murder ("You're not that cruel, Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie happily surrenders to Mr. Welles...
...appears that Harvard, too, or perhaps especially, has succumbed to a distinctly American ideology; for University officials now promise us bigger and better Dean's Lists along with our bigger and better Houses, facilities, scholarships, and tuitions. We are assured that the percentage of students on the Dean's List is increasing rapidly and steadily, and that we may look forward to a time in the very near future when at least half the class appears on this distinctive roster...
True, this increase provides a positive measure for the improved quality of each entering class, but conceivably the Dean's List will soon come to be meaningless as an academic achievement. Dean's List students who are only in the top fifty per cent of their class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could...
...Dean von Stade commented that the modernization program, added to the existing differences among dormitories in the Yard, will present a difficult problem in assigning rooms when the new uniform rent schedule for all Freshman goes into effect next Fall...