Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berates Wasters Who Shirk Job...
...This spirit of baseball indifference has got to be changed and I'm going to make it part of my job as head coach to see that it is changed. Too many men are going down to Soldiers Field to while away the spring afternoons and not to put all they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they...
...take on a 175 pound man will again wrestle in his own class. Kaufman is in the 175-pound class today as Goodwin is still out. Kaufman ordinarily works with the 158 pounders. Cowen has supplanted Lieberman in the 125-pound class and Lifrak, forced out of a job by Syke's return to his own class, will not wrestle today...
...vaudeville artist knows that a successive series of unsuccessful appearances will send him either to the wilds of the wastelands or to a job in a store; the college lecturer knows that his pittance is like the poor, always with him. This does not keep all lecturers from playing to their audience. Indeed it makes some of them play too hard. But it does keep them from remembering that youth is a careless audience, that it cannot see vitality in matter unless the matter is presented in a vital form. And too often tradition alone keeps the mythical second balcony...
...amount of enjoyment is proportionate to the number of reels still unshown at the moment of entrance. Actually this is not quite true, for a great many of our current movies can be divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...