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...second and less apparent purpose of the university can be summed up in the trite phrase "to keep alive the light of learning." Those who are to turn out that indefinite product--the educated man--must have more for their background than four or even six years of classroom education, will provide. To codify and present knowledge in comprehensible form is their profession; they have dedicated themselves to the work of revealing to other men the treasures of the ages. But their duty does not end there; they must not stagnate in the mere conning over of long-known facts...
...speedily put all such self-centered thoughts away as unworthy, and turned to a serious consideration of the clipping itself. The incessant voicings of the theory that intelligent curiosity must be aroused in the student have made it almost trite and certainly wearisome. Howsoever, it is one of the Vagabond's cherished beliefs. More, it is a pillar supporting the remainder of his beliefs. For if one is not curious he may never penetrate that pleasure, enhancing circle of native vagabonds who wander in and out of classrooms supremely unaware of monitors...
Whirlpool, in which handsome Edward Leiter represented a small town pastor's struggle against sex, capital and gossip, closed after three performances. It was earnest and trite. Most of its potential public were busy with Christmas shopping...
...News", an all-talking picture of newspaper life, starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard, and Sam Hardy, holds your interest to the end. The cynical, sarcastic atmosphere of the news room is there: the big scoop, the ceaseless waste of energy. Even a trite denouncements brought about through a dictaphone roll, does not blemish the effect of the whole...
...Majestic Theatre affords mild entertainment in the form of a musical play entitled "Woof Woof"--selfstyled "a romantic musical comedy". The romance is trite, the music negligible, and the comedy pretty thin, although the general effect is not unpleasing as musical comedies...