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President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, writing in today's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, claims that Harvard is giving a "bad example" to the country by holding pre-season football practice. He states that this evil is the result of having hard games at the beginning of the season, and that in turn these early games are inspired by a desire to secure larger attendance...
...Freshman team, after having prepped at Andover. This year he was the second highest scorer in the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League. Last spring as a Sophomore, he won his Major "H" as a result of his work as a shot putter on the track team. Next year's manager will be John Keppel '40, of Eliot House...
...cinemaddicts whose notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture which is aimed at historical fidelity rather than romantic excitement, but often achieves both...
...operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol, forcefully directed by John Ford, the season's liveliest adventure film. Good sequence: the wooden S.C. 599 nosing through a mine field to blow up a U-boat at its supply base...
...rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack of materials, to changes in plans during construction, or to dissatisfaction with newly completed ships. The result is that both parts of the country's defense forces are to be greatly delayed in consummation. And now Secretary Woodring has called the Panama Canal defenses inadequate...