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...year-old Frank Learoyd Boyden of Foxboro, Mass, did do. That fall of 1902, just out of Amherst himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday...
...South Foxboro, Mass., Rev. Ernest A. Thorsell, whose wife and son died a year ago, found life lonely. Last week he enrolled at the Massachusetts State Police Training School, to become a State Trooper. Last Sunday he appeared in his pulpit dressed as usual. Presently he will roar up on his motorcycle, preach in a trooper's blue uniform...
...result of the managerial competition of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra John Howard Newton '25 of Foxboro, and John Langdon Sullivan'24 of Durham, N. H., have been chosen assistant managers...
...hear about another experiment to idealize industry. This time it is not in Russia, out West, or in the East Indies, but it is in the nearby town of Foxboro, Mass. A prominent citizen has led in a "New Civilization" movement which allows passengers in the busses to pay whatever fare they wish. Each week's deficit on the bus line is so much smaller than the loss of the preceding week that it looks as if the "New Civilization" might soon support itself and extend its activities to other commodities...
...such a highly civilized community as Foxboro the "New Civilization" might work. But suppose we tried it at Harvard. But suppose we tried it at Harvard. Imagine the Bursar eagerly scanning the checks for the Term Bills hoping to find some large ones to make up for the general low average. Imagine a line at the Waldorf cash register without checks and not waiting for change. There would be fewer latenesses at the nine o'clock classes. But every student would undoubtedly run beyond his means in order to avoid living on the generosity of others. Soon, instead of paying...