Word: boyes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this Reverend Edward Hall read from the Scriptures; and the choir sang, "It Singeth Low in Every Heart." Reverend S. M. Crothers made a short address, and offered prayer--which was followed by the sentence, "I Heard a Voice from Heaven," a soprano solo by a member of the boy choir. Then the choir and congregation joined in the hymn, "How Happy He is Born and Taught." The benediction which followed was pronounced by Reverend Edward Hall...
...Athletic Committee on the evening before the Yale game and he was again declared eligible upon the assurance of the principal of the school and his own signed statement that he had never received any payment whatever for instruction in physical exercise or for coaching a school boy team. At that time it was not known to the committee, or suggested to them that he had received money for giving private lessons in boxing, and his word that he had never received a cent which would in any way impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule...
...College Library has lately received from Dr. S. A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a copy of Virgil "ad usum Delphini," printed in London in 1:40, which has served four generations of Harvard graduates as a text book; it bears the school-boy autographs of its last three owners, while the name of the first owner has been written by another, presumably by his father. The successive users of the book were Joshua Green, of the Class of 1749, his son Joshua, of the class of 1784, his grandson Joshua, of the class...
...James' Epistle: "So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by the law of liberty." At the outset of university life, the speaker said, a man comes into a new freedom of thought and action. The restrictions and guiding influences which have surrounded the boy are gone, and the man is at liberty to think and do as he chooses. It is not unnatural that he is tempted to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and to dabble in sin in the sudden reaction from enforced virtue. The absence...
...writers and are, therefore, strong in their vividness and sincerity. "Salem Skinner, Sportsman," is perhaps the most entertaining" story in the number. The writer has not allowed humor to run riot and has tempered his ridiculous situation with a very appropriate touch of the sentimental side of boy human nature. "From the Front Platform" suffers somewhat from unnecessary length, but the story, which the old horse-car driver tells, is dramatic and abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward" is a railroad story with an exciting situation but the writer fails to make it very clear why the "coward" deserves...