Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's freshman hurdler, Edward C. Perkins, the Hartford boy, is speeding along in such a promising manner that the indications are that he will run the present intercollegiate champion, Cady of Yale, off his feet. Perkins gets a great start, and in the big hurdles leads Cady to the finish. Cady, Perkins and Hatch, the last another new comer in the event, are clearing the hurdles close to 16s. flat in the 120 yards...
...Will Hall Riddle '95 - Extract from the Boy Orator of Tapata City, R. H. Davis...
...following yachts are at present enrolled in the register of the Harvard Yacht Club: Schooner - Louise, R. M. Johnson '95; Cutters - Agnes, M. L. Scull '95; Fancy, C. F. Lyman '96; Helen, P. L. Smith '97; Tom Boy, T. K. Lothrop '95; Vera, F. Duffield '96; Paralos, J. D. Parker '96. Sloops - Eleanor, A. Whiteside, Jr., '95; Sequin, G. P. Scott '96; Liris, L. C. Tuckerman '97; Rat, L. B. Valentine '97. Jib and mainsails - Kid, W. R. Peabody '95; Marjorie, W. McKittrick '96; Prima, F. N. Balch '96; Raccoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; Leitrim, T. J. Manahan...
...While we do not care to take up a discussion of the purely educational advantages which the two kinds of schools may often offer in different degrees there is one argument urged in behalf of the boarding school which we wish to discredit; the argument, namely, that a young boy, by the experience of a boarding school life, is made manly, self-reliant, independent. The words are often used with very little distinction, but the underlying idea is that the boy at an early age begins to enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers...
...fourteen or less, a boy's place is at home. The influences which surround him should be home influences. The formation of his character can not safely be trusted to any one less interested in him or less intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best...