Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time-honored. Let us put this one aside,- at least the childish part of it, as we have done with the countless schoolboy pranks of the old college days. Above all, let it not be said that Harvard men are influenced by that most childish of motives, resistance to authority, which in all our other relations with the Faculty died a peaceful death long...
...conduct drill. Obviously then if he can not make a success of the drill, the other course must be given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles. The training is most valuable and on the whole is as good a rest for a man who is hard at work...
...hardly necessary to refer to Ninety-six. The uproar and confusion that they created and their schoolboy hand to hand conflicts were highly discreditable to them. They have yet to learn that now they are supposed to have ceased to be schoolboys, that their conduct here ought to be gentlemanly, and that last night's performance was both foolish and disgraceful...
...would be better to be able to look back at the last occasion on which the class meet together as undergraduates as one where every man showed that he had laid to heart the lessons of his Alma Mater than as one where the men retrograded to the schoolboy manners of four years...
...Allen, a Berkely schoolboy, accomplished a remarkable feat Friday in the games of his school given at the Berkeley Oval. He ran 200 yards in even time-20 seconds-being paccd part of the way by Wendell Baker. He was aided by the wind, but showed that he is a coming man at sprint running. He will probably enter Yale next fall...