Word: lads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lawnette and Barney" is a powerful story of a lad on the verge of insanity and his effort to protect his benefactress from his own violence...
Harvard Classical Club. "Ancient Vase-Paintings in their Relat on to the I lad." Part I, Illustrated by Dr. Julius Sachs Upper Boylston, 7.45 p. m. The public are invited...
...Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile...
...himself graduated from Harvard some years ago, reports that his nine year-old son is in serious trouble. The lad has been told that he is to enter college when he is eighteen and by a not too complex mathematical calculation he has figured out that this will place him in the class of 1900. He is accustomed to hear his father speak of his class as that of '75, and reasoning by analogy, he has arrived at the conclusion that his own will be the class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong...
...will oblige. A Harvard lad who is permitted to assist in editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit...