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Thirteen British boys (average age, 16) are this year enjoying an International Schoolboy Fellowship in such schools as Kent, Loomis, St. Paul's, Taft, Asheville, Choate, Pomfret...
...boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year-because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew...
BRUCE Lockhart, an impulsive young Scotchman with a fondness for lovely ladies and a sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...
...South America "first man to fly," despite his own deprecation of the title. "First man to fly" was Frenchman Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years later, rose 20 ft., went 720 ft. in 21 sec. His machine added nothing to plane construction...
...lead which kept them out ahead of their opponents throughout the entire game. The Freshmen can wild in the last half running up more than 20 points in the two last periods. Milton's only threat to score came late in the second quarter when Currier, captain of the schoolboy five managed to break through the Harvard defense and make a successful shot from mid-floor: another shot by Gordon came as the half ended...