Word: boyes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...successful story. It relates the disillusioning experience of a "cub" reporter on a great daily; and these experiences are racily told in an account crammed with newspaper incident. This account, however, is rather arbitrarily placed between two quite different scenes, one in a club and the other with the boy's father. The relation between the three episodes might more plainly be shown; or else, the three episodes might be made more distinct, thus making of the story three character-sketches, as the writer evidently intended...
...belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public has a warmer feeling for colleges than for technical schools, because colleges are places for high aims, high opportunities and high spirits. "The college student, while learning to work intelligently and vigorously, should have to more work put upon...
...system with reasonable intelligence. They confirm the results of previous inquiries in several important respects;--thus, they prove that under a wide elective system there will be no extreme specialization, and there will be fair amount of judicious choice of correlated subjects. The general conclusion is that a boy of eighteen who has had a good training up to that age will ordinarily use the elective system wisely, and that the boy who has had an imperfect or poor training up to eighteen years is more likely to accomplish something worth while under an elective system than under any other...
...decided not to answer the CRIMSON'S editorial of December 22, because we know how the school-boy lispings in its editorial columns have been regarded by the University at large, but as our indifference was mistaken for submission to a censorship, and our silence for a confession of guilt, we feel compelled to put our case before the University...
...Association is also conducting outside philanthropic work at T wharf, the Chinese Sunday school, tramps' lodging-house in Boston, the East Cambridge Reading Room and in various Boy's clubs...