Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headmaster McOrmond of Westminster School made the point that the Modern Schoolboy is more studious than his predecessors because of "better equipment, better teachers, more incentives, more interesting material to work with and a more interesting and exciting world ahead...
Headmaster Irvine "of Mercersburg interpolated ironically: "Each generation, of course, has its quota of loafers who will always be a Headmaster's hardest problem and who will make instructors earn their salaries," but he too thought the Modern Schoolboy works "more earnestly...
...oldtime schoolboy technique where one blithe spirit would put a pig in the Bursar's office and none but the pig would "squeal"-what of that technique, where Hardihood was learned through punishment and Eternal Friendships were bound with bonds of silence...
Rector William G. Thayer of St. Mark's: "I have confidence that the mod ern schoolboy is going to be a real help in making things better...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...