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Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gypsies | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...prefer going around Robin Hood's barn every trip instead of in the front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...first of the final round-robin series to determine the championship of the Boston Indoor Polo League, the Crimson mallet-wielders will face the 101st Field Artillery Team at the Commonwealth Armory tonight. One of the elimination games remains to be played, but besides the University, the Essex and the Artillery trios are sure of places in the final series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG OPPONENTS TO MEET CRIMSON OUTFITS | 2/27/1926 | See Source »

With the first intercollegiate match of the year with Bowdoin College on February 13, still over a month away the University fencing team will hold the first trials of the season today at 2.30 o'clock, when all the members of the squad will engage in a round robin tournament to determine the squad which will open the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS COMPETE IN ROUND ROBIN TRIAL MATCHES TODAY | 1/9/1926 | See Source »

General Andrews gave orders that if the name of Izzy Einstein or Moe Smith appeared once in print, they would be fired. For two months their exploits have been hidden from the public eye. The public which looked upon them with as much delight as ever it looked on Robin Hood was denied their adventures-adventures as thrilling as those of Sir Launcelot, as those of Richard Coeur de Lion, as those of Don Quixote de la Mancha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Izzy and Moe | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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