Word: lads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high rate of speed on the irst lap compelled him to run slower for the last lap. However he spurted on the home stretch and covered the distance in 50 1-4s., three-twentieth of a second less than Brooks, who previously held or lad therecord of 50 2 5sec. This was the third record broken at the meeting and Baker's beautiful running won long and continued applause, not only as an exhibition of endurance and speed but also of graceful racing...
...part of thorough education, and wish to treat it as earnest study, not idle pastime; as a duty instead of a diversion. As regards individual training, they wish each incoming student to be weighed, measured, examined and tested by an expert professor, who will carefully take note of each lad's physical peculiarities, and prescribe for him a course of systematic exercise, so devised and arranged as to accelerate slow growth, strengthen weak organs, cultivate neglected muscles, and gradually educate and train each individual into a man, physically sound, healthy, well-balanced, and evenly developed...
...various, but one of them undoubtedly is that Canton is a great seat of learning, and the literati of China have always been the most determined opponents of foreigners. It is at Canton, indeed, where the greatest examining University of China is to be found. A Chinese lad in the south of the empire, determining to be distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take his chance for the first...
...gentle freshman he, a guileless lad...
...this lad's first note, the busy grind...