Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah Bondi, with that effortless perfection which, because it can come only from long experience, all younger actors lack. The result is one of the most persuasive documents about an old couple since the late Ring Lardner wrote Golden Honeymoon...
...them, however, to regard this new man as an actual substitute for the more or less theoretical Freshman Adviser, and to pester him with all sorts of questions about courses of instruction. A great new servant, one hopes, is about to be acquired, but the old deficiency, the lack of genuine scholastic counsellors for the new men, still stands, and must still be faced by the University...
Seriously handicapped by adverse weather conditions all season the Cornell crew was the last in the East to begin actual Practice gave this Spring, and the lack of sufficient long workouts was evident when their Varsity eight trailed the Middies by a length last Saturday...
...informal, magazine-serial style and lack of much serious attempt at character analysis keep this work from the ranks of lasting literary worth, but it should endure as source material, as new light thrown upon the character of Wilson, who, when the occasional hero worship and sentimentality of the book is brushed aside, still looms through it as a great figure...
...what they have gained and lost in the largest course in the college. Always the target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...