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The work of the actor who plays the school master in this rather pathetic picture deserves very high commendation. Every gesture, his attitudes, facial expression and walk consistently picture a clear and well-defined individual. This man is scholarly enough and kindly hearted, but poor and perhaps weakly sensitive. He doesn't cut much of a figure among his associates and the boys play pranks on him, but at home he has a friend in his old mother. She sits up late making an overcoat for him and even the new overcoat makes another occasion for laughter in the school. The mother is taken sick and to buy her medicine he finds it necessary to pawn the overcoat, and one of his pupils sees the transaction and buys it back for him. This gives an opening for a scene showing that the pupils really saw something fine in the character under the awkward exterior of the master and both respected and loved him. The last scene pictures the school unanimous in showing its affection. - The Moving Picture World, August 5, 1911