Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
...would be pleased to receive a copy of the memorial to Briton Hadden. I want it for the boys in whose hands I can place it-the story of a boy in our own age who, to use Dr. Fosdick's phrase, was ''carried outside himself by something greater than himself to which he gave himself...
...Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...
Cause of the hurly-burly was a questionnaire contrived by some students in the departments of sociology and psychology, assisted by their professors and circulated among 500 boy students and 500 girls. The questionnaire probed boldly into questions of sex: What did students think about trial marriage, sexual relations, licit and illicit, large families, birth control, proper age for marriage? The investigators explained that "during the last several decades it has become unceasingly apparent that there is something seriously wrong with the traditional system of marriage in this country." Two hundred students had written out their answers before President Brooks...
...hurly-burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...