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...winning first place in the Indoor Baseball League, a hard-hitting Kirkland nine slugged the Deacons into the lead for the All-Round Championship Trophy. With 115 points in baseball alone, Kirkland has piled up a total of 325. Chiefly through their scoring punch on the gridiron, the Winthrop athletes hold second place in the race, while last year's victors, the Bellboys, trail 85 points behind them...
...successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever talking about loyalty, meaning a devotion to places rather than to ideas. We are slavish in our school and college loyalties. For some boys...
Worcester Academy was his preparatory school, at which he was an all-round athlete, competing is three sports
Chairman McReynolds left the White House considerably sobered. In his pocket he carried President Roosevelt's surrender to the nation's war scare. Reluctantly the President had written a memorandum accepting a mandatory, all-round arms embargo provided it should be effective only until...
Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...