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Next game for the roaring Yardlings is Huntington School at Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock today. After their showing yesterday, they are rated as favorites in this, contest, their third straight with a school-boy team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Nine Downs Governor Dummer 6-0 | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...things, but not about this!"? Without Harvard indifference to break down, what would the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in New York this weekend do? All that energy, all that elbow-bending, all that glad-handing, would go for nothing. Without indifference, the meeting would be just like any other school-boy get-together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK NONCHALANCE | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation for the facts themselves; it must not pose as the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION ON THE WAR | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard has good reason to remember his running mate, Bill Hutchinson. Bob Krieger is slated to start at end, but Coach Blaik may be compelied to shift him into the backfield. In this event he will be a distant threat, but no MacLeod by any means. The Minneapolis school-boy sensation has yet to prove him-self in intercollegiate competition...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...school-boy, reading of him, is likely to imagine him a great brute of a man, whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

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