Word: robin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesse James. The Robin Hood of America ". . . there was no ultimate evil and no ultimate good that the dashing highwayman did not accomplish." Behind the fantastic and villainous hero of the yellow backs, Mr. Dibble finds a not unlovable young man, more sinned against than sinning, indomitable, humorous, fighting a dauntless fight against inconceivable odds, downed in the end only by treachery...
...Freshman fencing tournament held in Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon, eight of the 30 Freshmen who are reporting to Coach Danguy for fencing instruction won positions on the Freshman fencing squad, from which the newly authorized 1927 fencing team will be selected. The tournament was run as a round robin with three-touch bouts. A similar tournament will be held tomorrow for fencers from the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes, which will be played off in five-touch bouts...
...When Robin Hood rapped a wealthy miser on the pate with his quarter-staff and removed his pouch, he usually gave the money, or a large share of it, to the poor. It is much the same beneficient, kindly spirit which pervades the soul of the famous Polish bandit, Mucha. Nothing the dismal condition of his country's finances, he has made out an inventory of his year's "swag", and sent the list plus the income tax upon the amount to the government...
Howard Pyle was best known as an illustrator, in heroic style, of adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked...
...chapter of his book, dealing not with amateur dramatics but with the subject of the "Dramatic Value in Teaching" he illustrates the value of the psychology of the drama in teaching in a small rural school. He shows that making the children act out their primary stories, such as Robin Hood or perhaps some phase in the life of Lincoln and Washington arouses in the youngsters a remarkable degree of interest for the characters they impersonate...