Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas, any more than time spent with a hook and line is fully...
...clubs of the Federation which will send then to their home towns and preparatory schools, and thus disseminate where it will be most productive a knowledge of what Harvard has to offer the sub-Freshman. Similar booklets are now published by other colleges and it was to enable the schoolboy in the West and south to have all the evidence before him when he made his choice that the Federation undertook the publication of this present book...
...work must carry the force of authority. With the fortunate selection of able contributors who are peculiarly well suited to discuss their topics, with the inclusive range of these topics, and with the special feature of numerous illustrations, the volume must necessarily be attractive enough to catch a schoolboy's attention, interesting enough to tempt him to make use of it, and sufficiently complete to give him a true picture of student life at Harvard...
...schoolboy indoor, track and field championships will be held this afternoon in Mechanics Building, Boston, at 2.30 o'clock. The dashes, in particular, are expected to be fast and closely contested, for such sprinters as Teschner, of Exeter, Sharpe of Worcester, Rice of Powder Point, and McCarthy of Boston College High, are entered. There are also a large number of relay races scheduled, some of which will be exceedingly close...
...Schoolboy track...