Although it's based on a 1906 Broadway hit, by far the most substantial aspects of this film are the big screen trappings lavished upon it, including vivid location photography of Harvard itself and energetic and dramatic sporting footage of the real Harvard-Yale final.
Titular 'hero' Bill Haines seems to be devoting hardly any time to his studies, life for him instead being one long round of hedonistic self-gratification. Mary Brian is required to do little but look cute, and Haines' loutish courting of her (which characteristically takes no account of the fact that she's already spoken for) seems to motivated more because she's the ONLY girl around rather than because he discerns any particular individual qualities in her. (The supposedly 'uproarious' scene in which he takes his harassment of her to further depths by deliberately breaking all the bottles of milk she's attempting to carry home must represent some sort of absolute nadir; and today he would probably deservedly go to jail for it.)
Titular 'hero' Bill Haines seems to be devoting hardly any time to his studies, life for him instead being one long round of hedonistic self-gratification. Mary Brian is required to do little but look cute, and Haines' loutish courting of her (which characteristically takes no account of the fact that she's already spoken for) seems to motivated more because she's the ONLY girl around rather than because he discerns any particular individual qualities in her. (The supposedly 'uproarious' scene in which he takes his harassment of her to further depths by deliberately breaking all the bottles of milk she's attempting to carry home must represent some sort of absolute nadir; and today he would probably deservedly go to jail for it.)