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...more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through Newton Hills, where Johnny Miles began passing Stenroos and dropping back, passing...
...ethics of "Stalky and Co," and its "moral suasion" has been much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...
Second, during the Omaha riots another negro was accused of an attack on a white woman and confined by the military authorities. The case was printed in scare-crow headlines in all our newspaper. In a later edition of the Boston Herald, in small type, at the fag-end of a long article on the riots, the statement was made that the accused had been released-nothing else. Can any fair-minded American believe that this is honest and fair dealing? Why was the world not told in as bold type and as plainly as the accusation was made that...
...janitor are rendered for seniors or sixth-form men at Rugby, by the boys in the lower forms. The first-form boy blacks his senior's shoes, runs his errands, prepares his breakfast and holds himself in readiness to do almost anything that his senior wishes. This is called "fagging." "The sixth-form boy may be a tailor's son, the first-form fag the son of a duke; school distinctions take precedence of all others." This custom of fagging is gradually dying out, however, much to the disgust of the conservative fathers who have been through it themselves...