Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goes to the university. Our American boy make up his mind that he must do hard and faithful work in school from his sixteenth to his eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome out-of-door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same...
...cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching, and yet to their astonishment quite a considerable proportion of these balls were missed! Here were the members of two trained teams, missing again and again a kind of ball which an English schoolboy would be ashamed to miss once in a score of trials...
...year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have set aside his freshman ways. But what are we to think of men who have retained their grammar schoolboy ways and introduced them into their sophomore year at college? Last Saturday in Sever 6 between twelve and one o'clock, we witnessed a sight which carried us back a good many years, to schoolboy days. It is very pleasant of course at proper times and in proper places...
...centre of which stands a bronze statue of the founder. The chapel is a good gothic structure, and the library is well supplied with the usual amount of manuscripts, etc. There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate, and it will be sufficient to say that Horace Walpole, Chatham, Gray, Shelley, Hallam, the historian, and the Duke of Wellington, were all Eton boys...
...though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point out to his awe stricken son the letters of his name, and with pride narrate how he put them there when a schoolboy himself. Few relics in the old schools and colleges are more highly prized than the names thus inscribed of those who in after years became famous...