Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...When a boy leaves the kindergarten and passes through the primary and grammar schools, his course of study is much narrowed. In the college course it is again broadened, and the pupil usually becomes really interested in his studies. Now this broad course may be brought down from the college to the intermediate school, or we might say, it may be brought up from the kindergarten. This experiment has been systematically tried in Brookline and works well...
...live he was allowed but a few years under the influence of his mother, being early taught the use of arms; and on becoming of age at fifteen years he was expected to distinguish himself by some gallant deed at the head of his twelve Busuks. When a boy and girl were engaged each had to give a dowry and if the engagement should be broken inside of three years the one breaking the engagement lost the dowries...
...believe that another fact underlies and explains both statements. It is that Yale, or rather athletic Yale, keeps in closer touch with the preparatory schools than does Harvard. The average school boy has a profound admiration for greatness, of which, in his mind, distinction at college is one of the highest manifestations. It is to this well-known school boy characteristic that Yale appeals, by occasionally sending her prominent men to the schools where they were fitted, to give advice on athletic matters, perhaps to disclose a new play in football, or a good trick in baseball, - in a word...
...good. The first is much the better of the two. In the second, "The Last Letter," the only fault is that the plot is unreasonable, if not impossible. By far the best thing in the number is "Jim," by C. A. Pierce. It is a story of a small boy who ran away from home and returned, like the prodigal son, to a much better reception than he had any reason to expect. The story is charmingly written. The poetry of the number is not above the average...
MUTE CHARACTERS.A Boy, a slave with Geta, Jacob W. Carret...