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...member of one of the Houses has a lot more freedom in the matter than Peter Prep, but the schoolboy cannot be expelled for having his mother in his room unattended, and this is possible at Harvard, absurd though it seems. The restrictions are insurance against neither the corruption of the students' morals nor the besmirching of the University's reputation, and serve only as a nuisance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO THIRD PERSON | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...hour. But last week's pickers were after something more than a day's pay. When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned in 129 Ib. of "good clean cotton." He was 15-year-old Harold Mason, a shy, gangling Senath, Mo. schoolboy, youngest competitor in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cotton Pickers | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...picked that cotton for Planter Hughes the day before, young Mason would have been paid about 75?. Last week he got $1,000 and the title "first world's champion cotton picker." Descendant of a long line of farm folk, Schoolboy Mason intends to use his prize money for an agriculture course at the University of Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cotton Pickers | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Starting off in the fourth period, 1944 picked up inside their own 20 and by using a series of powerful line bucks, sweeps, and reverses, drove to the Schoolboy 25, averaging a first down every two plays. Here Worcester braced and held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1944 Fails to Impress As Worcester Wins, 6-0 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...River's End" brings to life James Oliver Curwood's best of many good yarns. It is full of mystery, action and Canadian scenery, and Mounties cut to a schoolboy's dreams--crossing mountains, valleys and rives in canoe, on horseback and dogsled, and always "getting their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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