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Furthermore, in line, I suppose, with your political views, the suggestions you make are extremely reactionary, and would reverse the presumable progress of the last 30 years toward greater and greater freedom for students, more and more of what President Lowell called "self-education", as opposed to school-boy disciplinarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/22/1936 | See Source »

Married. Lynwood Thomas ("School-boy") Rowe, 22, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team; and Edna Mary Skinner, 21, of Eldorado, Ark.; in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1934 | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Coach Mikkola was particularly pleased with the turnout of the Class of 1937, and he hopes to have a championship first year aggregation this year. Many of the Freshman aspirants show considerable promise, and several of them starred on their school-boy teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Season Starts With 55 Varsity, '37 Men Out | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

...Freshmen reported for the first practice session and after the usual preliminaries Coach Cliff Gallagher chose 12 teams at random and ran through a few plays. The squad boasts many school-boy stars but is some lighter than the usual...

Author: By O. F. Ingram, | Title: CASEY PARES VARSITY TO 43 AFTER REVISION | 9/26/1933 | See Source »

...Columbia students appear not to have outgrown the school-boy complex of considering their teachers the authors of all evil. They apparently feel that the successful student is the one who can put one over on the professor. Accordingly, the Spectator, undergraduate daily, has welcomed the news that the test drawn up by Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK ME ANOTHER | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

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