Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discipline only toward which this principle works; that is the negative side. A sense of cooperative responsibility is sought. Curiously this instinct is higher in the criminal than in the so-called upper strata of society. At any rate a warped form of it known as loyalty to the gang is all-important among this class, while the tendency is all towards individualism in modern society...
Social service offers a chance to know men--men in the making. The boy of the street today is the voter of tomorrow. The city councils and state legislatures of the coming generation are more likely to be recruited from the boy gangs of today than from the colleges. A group of adolescent boys, undirected, may become a social menace--lacking respect for chastity, for property, and for law. That same gang under the guidance of a wholesome personality may be rendered law-abiding and constructive, playing an important role in the service of its street or district...
...card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak of various Boston tailors. Though they have several times been apprehended, they have always escaped, through political drag and the size of the gang, without severe punishment. Several students have already reported being swindled, but if men are on their guard, the menace is slight...
With Elsie Janis and her gang hurrying off on their tour, "Bill" and "Mable" have come to the Tremont for a limited engagement in "Dere Mable," a musical comedy by Edward streeter and John Hodges. It is "the Same old Bill" that we read about in "Dere Mable" books, admirably taken by Louis Bennison. For two acts, the audience has fears that Bill, with his head turned by hero-worship, will never be the same again, but a little rough treatment by his prospective employers brings him to realize that the can't "live on medals," and he goes back...
...line-up follows: 1922 1923 C. W. Phelps, W. Boorstein, r.f., l.f., A. E. McLeish, N. Tishman H. Gang, l.f. r.f., J. Pallo, R. F. Doolittle J. M. Kleberg, c. c., H. B. Tyson J. J. Irwin, lg. r.g., D. F. Egan, N. Depopolo M. L. Anson, r.g. l.g., H. L. Hertley