Taylor Holmes credited as playing...
Dr. Gibbs
- Dr. Gibbs: Is there something I can do for you, Mr. Belvedere?
- Lynn Belvedere: I wish to register in this university.
- Dr. Gibbs: What on earth for?
- Lynn Belvedere: $10,000.
- Dr. Gibbs: I don't quite follow.
- Lynn Belvedere: Dr. Gibbs, my novel, Hummingbird Hill, has just won the Morehouse Award, consisting of a gold medal and $10,000 in cash.
- Dr. Gibbs: Well, surely, the money doesn't mean anything to you.
- Lynn Belvedere: Money is the root of all evil. I respect it. The less I have of it, the more I respect it, and at the moment i have the greatest respect for it.
- Dr. Gibbs: But you must have made a fortune on your book.
- Lynn Belvedere: I also lost a fortune in libel suits.
- Dr. Gibbs: Oh, now. How...?
- Lynn Belvedere: My unconscionable desire to write the truth has inundated me in a sea of debt. I am, in legal terms, a pauper.
- Dr. Keating: Mr. Belvedere, these are astonishing grades!
- Lynn Belvedere: Yes, they are.
- Dr. Keating: 98, 100, 100, 97, 99, 100.
- Dr. Gibbs: Yes, and I must admit that your IQ places you in a very high category.
- Lynn Belvedere: Naturally. I am a genius.
- Dr. Keating: Yes, Mr. Belvedere, quite so.
- Dr. Gibbs: Yes, it is that very fact which compels me to suspect your motive in joining us here.
- Dr. Keating: Mr. Belvedere explained that the Morehouse Award required him to have a college degree.
- Dr. Gibbs: I know what Mr. Belvedere said.
- Dr. Keating: Dr. Gibbs is not being arbitrary. Even you, sir, will admit that your entrance into Clemens as a freshman and your attempt to complete four years schooling in less than one year could disguise an ulterior purpose.
- Lynn Belvedere: Subterfuge is a strategy employed by idealists and parasites. I have never been either.
- Dr. Keating: Well, in that case then, you won't object if I enroll you in this university as a freshman -- subject to conditions.
- Dr. Keating: Which are?
- Dr. Keating: If you should attempt to use this college for a publicity stunt to exploit your novel or yourself -- that is, to say, if there is any notoriety or sensationalism during your stay here at Clemens -- then it shall become my unpleasant duty to expel you.
- Lynn Belvedere: Conditions accepted.
- Dr. Keating: Then allow me to welcome you officially to Clemens University.
- Lynn Belvedere: [Shaking hands] Thank you, President Keating.