Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so that the public might become better acquainted with the far-flung "fighting Irish." But Mr. Hutchins says that only a handful of students are in big-time college football; Notre Dame combats this by acquiring plenty of players. They used eighty-eight men in one game, four Irish and eighty-four others...
There are also some statements which Mr. Hutchins makes which are not true. He declares that an athlete may be led to believe that whatever is done on the field, including slugging, is "done for the sake of alma mater," that the "habits of fair play" may be acquired as easily from studying as from sports. The slugging is a typical case of Hutchins' exaggeration. As for the fair play, there is no question that the kind of pressure afforded by big-time football is an education for everyone concerned, from the regulars and the scrubs and the band...
This is no plea for bigger-time football. But there can be a balance between the football of Pittsburgh and Notre Dame and the football of the dime admission, which Mr. Hutchins advocates. It is just this happy medium at which Harvard is attempting to arrive through having on the one hand a decent amateur football team and on the other an endowment plan. This endowment plan will in the future mean that Harvard's athletic program will not depend solely on up and down football gate receipts. The plan is an infant now, but an infant with giant possibilities...
...story simply pulsates with social significance. James Cagney and Pat O'Brien start out as slum kids. After they have been caught pilfering a freight car, Mr. Cagney saves Mr. O'Brien's life by yanking him out of the way of a locomotive. This is really a pity, since one grows into a reforming priest, the other a big shot gangster. Their paths cross years later, and you know the rest as well as Warner Brothers...
Unimaginative directing by Michael Curtis doesn't do much to redeem the triteness of this theme. And when Mr. Cagney turns out to have a heart of gold the picture degenerates into another blurb about the nobility of gangsters. "Down on the Farm," a Jones Family feature which concerns corn, both of the cob and jug variety, is naive but rather amusing...