"The Sophomore," which the previous reviewer claims to have seen in its sound version, is a rarity by the great director Leo McCarey which has recently surfaced on YouTube in its silent version.It is a mildly amusing,at best cute, college comedy also of interest as a vehicle for the underrated, charming star Eddie Quillan. This version as it has been posted is missing the dice gambling scene, referred to by the previous user review and by the contemporary New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall,which explains why the sophomore of the title lost the funds with which to pay his tuition.Contrary to what the user review says, the Quillan character does not ask his mother for a loan; he is too proud, but the waitress in the soda shop where he tries to work covers for him, without telling him, borrowing in turn from her boss. There are some funny gags such as a distracting cat landing on the trail of the woman's gown Quillan goes on stage with for a school play, McCarey uses a similar gag later in one of his Bing Crosby religious films. This occurs in the first of the two extended comedy sequences. The use of drag by Quillan, who appears as the Princess in a corny medieval setting, is of historical curiosity, especially as the Quillan character later refers to himself disparagingly as "a powder puff" in an intertitle,and as we have seen him prancing about somewhat, for deliberate humorous effect, in the soda shop footage. In the second extended sequence he saves the day, but in a surprising way,when this clumsy, short, not especially athletic student is called upon to play in the football match finale. Let's hope the sound version also turns up, especially as there was a musical number in it, a song that the waitress, played by Sally O'Neill, croons to the sophomore.