Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father as a boy of 18 enlisted for and served nine months in the middle of the Civil War. He came out entirely unharmed in any way. From the time when a pension was granted to all veterans until his death he received from the Government about $3,000. After his death my stepmother, 23 years younger than he, received her widow's pension of $30 a month, a total of almost $3,000 more. About $6,000 for nine months of service...
TIME, March 9, described an exceptionally strong boy from Massachusetts. The article closed with the following: "The family have not decided whether to send him to Temple University in Philadelphia or to Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass. Since he prefers exercise to study, they agree that, like Professor Rogers, he should become a teacher of physical education...
This conveys the impression that it is possible to become a teacher of physical education without much study. Such a statement would have been true 30 years ago but not in any reputable school today. The boy in question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College is concerned (if admitted at all) to find that, in the four years, he will have to get a regular college course besides his professional subjects. Springfield College does not recruit freaks; nor does it accept muscles as a substitute for brains. Applicants are tested as to aptitudes and then...
...there was Junior. So I took to asking the little Committee-woman about the garden and "Were not love birds really out of place in a Persian setting." But all she did say was; "My dear boy, there are love birds everywhere." Then and there I knew Spring had come...
...this boy-scoutish fashion college students are politely rapped on the knuckles and told that if they would have planned their work from the beginning of the quarter they would not have had to cram...