Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus for four years Peter lived. He came to know everyone of importance, and as an usher at dances found his name in the papers more often than that of the football captain. This was partly due to the fact that he looked harder for his name. But this, kiddies, is not a tale with a moral. Peter did graduate; and at Commencement as he looked about him and saw the worn and haggard expressions of those men who had worked hard, or who were in posts of importance he laughed; imagine having done all that work when you could...
...best products of the old "silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
...decision to lay out two holes for practicing approach shots was largely due to the activity of Phillips Finlay '31 in promoting the idea. Francis Ouimet is to aid in the enterprise, offering advice in planning the course as well as instructing candidates for the team during the early part of the spring...
...Due to the fact that the entire production was made in the autumn, many attractive scenes such as the crews rowing on the Charles, the New London races, the Yale baseball game, and Commencement Day have been omitted, but it is hoped that these additions may be made before another year...
...poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class is in a measure due the large number of dropped and readmitted men is of course valid, but it is fallacious to point to a continued increase of poor records as the result of this condition unless the increase in the number of these men can itself be explained on external grounds...