Word: boye
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President Eliot. Apropos of Mr. Storrow's remarks, he declared that what we need to realize and act upon is that a democratic society is going to be divided into four layers. Contrary to this doctrine, the present school system has been organized on the idea that every boy may be President of the United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living by manual labor...
Esperanto was born, said M. Privat, in a little Prussian village where a boy named Zamenhof lived about the middle of the last century. This boy saw the need of a universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
...experience and mature philosophy, Mr. D. M. Cheney wisely chooses to deal with incidents and emotions which, though not commonplace are well within his power. In "The Wizard of the Garden," he has a simple plot,--merely the growth of friendship between a lonely old man and an imaginative boy. Perhaps he has not always made the latter's talk sufficiently childlike, but possibly he was afraid thus to disturb the charming atmosphere of romanticism in which his characters dwell. His story has truth to human nature and beauty of expression. For publishing work of this quality, the editors...
...Townsend's "Fishing" and Mr. Bowles' "A Course in Journalism" are perfectly commonplace stories, unenlivened by anything in the style of their telling. Better far is Mr. Whitman's "Morning with the Army." Though if one remembers aright, it is not so good as some of his other "small-boy" stories. Mr. Biddle's "His Last Resort" is cleverly conceived and told, but too improb- able even though laid in a land broader-minded than...
...Little Boy, centre, played fullback on last year's team. He is 22 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weights 181 pounds...