Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This insufficiency was not a question of scale, but the fact that Journey's End is a study of the English public-school code in wartime rather than of war itself. Its middle-aged schoolmaster Osborne, its eager schoolboy Raleigh respond to duty mindlessly, in a series of conditioned reflexes; they go to their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict...
...more harrowing than the physical horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...
Other presidents: Cooper Union's Edwin S. Burdell: "In turbulent times such as these . . . steps must be taken to keep young America on an even keel. . . . Memories of the last war, when students were eager to leave school in response to the call of the military, are yet too fresh. Parents should make every effort to prevent the development of a similar state of mind...
...total of over 150 students have applied for the course, which includes 72 hours of "ground school" and 35 to 50 hours of flying instruction in the air, and which fits the student for a private pilot's certificate of competency...
Everett N. Case, who was educated at Princeton and at Cambridge University, and has been employed several years in the executive offices of the General Electric Company in New York City, has been appointed Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration...