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Casey will deliver a lecture on the "Forward Pass" in the "school" which is to open on Friday, March 30. The series of lectures will be conducted for the advantage of local schoolboy gridiron coaches...
Plans are now being made for Interscholastic Swimming Championships to be held in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool on February 2, 1935. This is the first time that Harvard has sponsored any schoolboy competition except in track and cross country, and marks an attempt to raise Harvard's prestige in swimming circles as well as foster interscholastic competition in the East...
...been raised on the coast of Norway and like coast children throughout the world had been taught to keep his eyes peeled for it. With shaking hands he scooped up the cheesy stuff, 60 lb. of it, and carried it home. Next day he got a schoolboy friend to take a sample to his chemistry laboratory. That night the boy came back to report that the sample had assayed 70% ambergris. Ambergris, he had heard, was worth $26 an oz. His find would bring...
...Alumni Day last week President Harold Willis Dodds made this year's award. Though the winner was a 12-year-old Arlington, Mass, schoolboy in 1922, it seemed to proud Princeton men that the prize had been created expressly for such...
When an American college student or schoolboy speaks of "the fellows," meaning thereby his companions, the other boys, he uses the word in an older sense than the Oxford man does when he speaks of the English "fellows." A "fellow" was a companion, a comrade, a mate, before he was a holder of a share in a college, an honorary scholar. In Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also...