Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...middle course. But the function of a periodical is not acts, but an intelligent discussion of acts. It must interpret the news, and to do so adequately it should not be swayed by passion. The present attitude of the "New Republic" is like that of the little boy who refuses to play because he has not received his full share of the pie, and is correspondingly useless. An attitude like that of "Harvey's Weekly", on the other hand, which indiscriminately damns all acts of President Wilson just because they are his acts, is of equal intellectual insignificance...
...proclamation of the President of the United States, this week is to be observed as Boy Scout Week throughout the nation. It is desired to obtain one million new associate members of the Boy Scouts of America. There is no greater investment than in providing the means for developing the youth of the nation, upon whom the whole future of America so obviously depends...
Although there will be no active drive conducted in the University, the cause of the Boy Scouts is none the less worthy of undergraduate support. Surely there are few better ways of investing a dollar than in an associate membership of the Boy Scouts any day this week...
...sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...
...boy with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...