Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among professorial indictments of the modern college student that of Dr. J. Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, is not the least severe. In a speech before the Radcliffe chapter o Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
According to Dr. Park there is a remedy for this situation. Students should be separated into two groups: those who come to college for intellectual stimulus and to whom elementary restrictions and requirements only serve as checks to further progress; and the who come to college because it is being done. Of necessity the latter will I, treated like "preparatory school students, and will be forced to spend a certain amount of time in the college presumably in study...
...love the girl, and the girl loves me, and yet I can't marry her because her parents want me to," cries Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...
...audience at the Park, most of whom never saw the inside of the Repertory, loved Peg almost as much as her nursery mates at the Repertory used to, which would seem to assure Miss Entwistle of a long career and a merry one, with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...
...individual stars who will vie for the Intercollegiate prize at Van Cortlandt Park are Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, Captain M. L. Smith of Yale, J. C. Loucks of Syracuse, W. J. Cox of Penn State, Captain Karl Auer of Dartmouth, Horace Betson of Cornell, Forrest Taylor of Maine, and Russell Payne of Pennsylvania. They comprise one of the greatest collections of cross country luminaries ever to clash on one course...