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...great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Some blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Hollywood, that the movie-going public has an I.Q. a little lower than that of a mentally retarded twelve...
Since none of these objections are very valid, it would be extremely narrow of the Faculty to deny these few last-year men a chance to get their diplomas at mid-years before going into the service...
...cent of the freshman class were willing to fight overseas (compared to 33% a year ago) ; 89% said it was more important to beat Hitler than stay out of war; 36% wanted to fight right away. Said the Princetonian (100% isolationist a year ago): "We . . . believe that the valid debate is over, that isolationists in large measure now amount to merely obstructionists. . . . We urge these people to examine their own consciences, to ask themselves as democratic citizens if it were not better for democracy that they yield as we have yielded...
...President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights of all peoples to equal economic enjoyment...
Only one way of establishing a valid claim to supremacy exists-victory at the Poughkeepsie regattas. Over the years the race on the Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest...