Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college, one of the most important factors in his choice is the presence of opportunities for earning money. In most cases the State universities, from Michigan to California, provide all the opportunities for self-support that one can expect, and they emphasize this in their literature. A boy graduating from high school in Illinois knows that it will be comparatively easy for him to make his own way at the University of Chicago or at the State university--easy, that is, compared with what he knows, or thinks he knows, of Harvard. To the handicap of distance, Harvard places upon...
...English recruiting posters has been placed in the periodical room of the Union, continuing the exhibition which began before Christmas. The posters, which are done in vivid colors, depict various scenes, tending to arouse enthusiasm in the English army. One, entitled "What will your answer be?", portrays a small boy questioning his father: "Father, what did you do to help when Britain fought for freedom in 1915?" Another is a picture of an English army cap with the words. "If the cap fits you, join the army today." A third is a quotation from Shakspere, "Stand not upon the order...
...Robert Frost, a rising young American poet, will read selections from his own writings. He is a native of New Hampshire and his book on northern New England called "North of Boston" has been pronounced by critics as among the leading works of the day. His other book, "A Boy's Way" has also gained much favor both in England and America. Mr. Frost has left his farm in New Hampshire in order to deliver lectures in Boston under the auspices of Mr. Browne, of Browne and Nichols School...
Robert Frost, author of "North of Boston" and "A Boy's Way" will be the guest of the Poetry Society at a meeting to be held in the Advocate Sanotum on the third floor of the Union tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Frost will read from his works. He is known as one of the best of the younger American poets, his work having been highly praised both in England and America. This is the first of a series of readings and talks to be given under the auspices of the society by prominent poets and critics...
...frightened into instant action by Advocate admonitions the undergraduate should go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow with a precise plan of procedure in life. The call of duty, they tell us, is not blasted into our ears at dawn on our twenty-first birthday. There was a boy who kept awake in his bed on the night before his twenty-first birthday until one minute past twelve, when, leaping from his covers, he startled the household by rushing through the dwelling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "There's a man in the house!" We shall...