Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Entrance examinations are largely to blame for the small capacity for self-education shown by college men. The entrance requirements are not too hard, but they are too numerous. In preparing for either the new or old plan tests, the average boy needs to put in a working day of six to eight hours of prescribed work during his last four years at school. He has not time to develop properly any independent intellectual interests worth cultivating; he has little leisure for self-improvement and self-development, and even this leisure he is apt to find has been planned...
...Harvard Freshmen, on the other hand, are unusually light this year, and unlike many Freshman teams, are not blessed by any former school-boy stars. However, the team has one excellent asset. The men have shown throughout the season an eagerness to learn and a zeal for accomplishment which so far has brought them out on top in each of the preliminary games. Spirit and team-play will go a long way toward winning football games, but every member of the Freshman squad realizes that, with Chapin, Kunhardt, and De Jonge, who have played a big part in the early...
These fragments, hastily executed in pencil, brush, pen, or water-color, present the most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note...
...Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends," which will follow Mr. Thayer's address, was filmed under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and the personal supervision of Hermann Hagedorn '07, author of "The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt." As a background the film shows such of Roosevelt's hunting grounds as the Bad Lands of the West, Medora, the Kootenai and Big Horn Mountains and the sites of Roosevelt's ranches. Many of Roosevelt's western friends and companions appear in the picture, among them Joe and Sylvane Ferris, Jack Reuter and Mrs. Margaret Roberts...
...organization of our youth in patriotic service is one of the most distinguished developments of the period of uprousal through which we have passed. The proclamation of President Wilson, recommending the observation of a "Boy Scout Week" early next month, throughout the land, undoubtedly gives expression to the popular sentiment of approval...