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...will always spot the scholar-athlete as an athlete, not as a scholar. A check, doubtless a hasty one, with the principal or headmaster of the young man's school, to find out whether he can meet Harvard's academic requirements, represents the entire investigation of the lad as a scholar...
Frederick James Cox first popped up among the shelves and stacks of the London Library when he was a lad of 16. In those days, the library was only 41 years old-a private place of study, established by men like Thomas Carlyle who wanted something more convenient and less crowded than the British Museum. Mr. Cox never knew Mr. Carlyle; nor did he know such early readers as Napoleon III and Lord Macaulay. But he used to chat with Gladstone ("When you opened a door for him, he always raised his hat"), and he remembers Herbert Spencer struggling over...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
Just what their intentions were, or what they were looking for--if anything--never became clear, as the pursuers made a basty escape. But the skivvy-clad lad, who claimed to be something called a "Deke," was hurriedly covered up with a pair of blue jeans and transported back to the institution down the river...
...free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...