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Jim's College Days (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

Jim's College Days (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

Jim Holiday, a poor but ambitious young man, is working his way through college by tutoring his roommate, Samuel Brown, a good-natured athletic fellow, with a rich, indulgent father, and a pretty coquettish sister, Marion. Jim tries to get...See moreJim Holiday, a poor but ambitious young man, is working his way through college by tutoring his roommate, Samuel Brown, a good-natured athletic fellow, with a rich, indulgent father, and a pretty coquettish sister, Marion. Jim tries to get on the football team, but the captain, Ned Hayward, is in love with Marion himself, and he will not appoint Jim to a position. Sam gambles and goes to dances, despite the objections of the trainer and the coach. Jim gets unpopular by trying to make him work hard, and at last does a good deal of Sam's work, to help him pass in his studies. The afternoon before the big game. Sam's sister Marion comes to the study, with some other girls and her mother. They have tea, and sitting in the window seat, Jim proposes. The girl likes him but shakes her head, and her mother suspecting the conversation, interferes with great pride. That night Sam goes to a fraternity dance, Jim staying at home to write a long essay for him. Jim's head aches and he leaves the dormitory to take a long walk. He sees some students whom he knows are bad ones, meet three fellows with suitcases, who are strangers. They hobnob together gleefully, and Jim sees the three men from his college pay the others enormous sums of money. They go into a barroom to finish the talk, and Jim steps into the rear vestibule to overhear them if possible. He learns that his sneaky college mates are betting against their own college, through the newcomers, and that they are going to drug Sam Brown, the star player of the team, and any others possible. Jim hurries away to the fraternity house where Sam is dancing. He sends in his name for Sam, and Marion happens to walk out on the portico, between dances, with Ned Hayward, the captain. She greets Jim, and Ned sees that she likes the other. He is jealous, and tries to get her away. Sam comes out and Ned tells him that Jim is intruding, and the roommates quarrel. As they stand there, the three plotters walk quietly into the fraternity house, unnoticed. They are preparing for their work, being members. Jim returns home, to their rooms, and waits all night in vain. Sam does not come back. Next morning, worn out with worry, Jim telephones to his home in the city, but no news. He hunts up the coach and the trainer of the team, and they go out to find Sam. No results. They jump into an auto and go to Sam's father's office. Marion and her mother have come there to go to the big game with him. They rush back to the college grounds, and as they are passing a saloon, big Sam, still in his dress suit, crumpled, dirty and almost unconscious is pushed out of the door by an angry barkeeper. They stop and learn that he has been drinking all night, and ride for a doctor. They get to the training quarters, and find the team waiting for them. Sam is able to walk, and realizes his folly. He sobs, but his teammates, once so fond of him, threaten him bodily violence, including the captain. They are frenzied and, while they are holding their powwow, officials come into the quarters, telling them that the time is up and that the game must start. They look around, and the captain ruefully sizes up the substitutes who line up before him. Jim Holiday has donned his football suit and stands there quietly waiting. The coach looks at Sam, and then points to Jim. He orders the captain to put Jim in the position, but he refuses. The coach threatens to call the game, but the captain yields. After a big play, the players run in, with Jim on their shoulders, the students crowding around. In the enclosure back of the quarters, they are met by Sam, who throws his arms around the shoulders of his roommate who won the game, while Mr. Brown, his wife, Marion and the girls rush up. They congratulate Jim, and Captain Ned Brown, who observes Marion's meaning better than Jim, comes up to congratulate them both. Jim is made a partner of Mr. Brown and the ending is obvious. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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