Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record entry of over 180 schoolboy athletes has been announced for the seventh annual Massachusetts High School track and field meet which is to be held in the Stadium Saturday. Competition in both track and field events is scheduled to start at 2 o'clock, and the meet will be run off regardless of weather conditions...
Several of the marks set in the class A division of last year's meet testify to the quality of competition which has been developed in the six years this gathering of schoolboy athletes has been held. New records in the quarter mile and in the 880-yard relay race were the features of last spring's contests. Smith of Brookline High did the quarter in 51 seconds and the Dorches for High quarter turned in a fast 1 minute 35 seconds for the half. Other outstanding performances were a 100 in 10 2-5 seconds by Trull of Lowell...
These are the days when the calm of Harvard's classrooms is punctuated by bursts of significant applause. Nor are these reverberating acclamations merely expressions of long restrained energy, connotative of a schoolboy glee that school is out and playtime has arrived. In the first place playtime has not arrived nor will it for more than two laborious weeks; and secondly, if these plaudits are those of gratitude. It is gratitude for past lectures not present release nor future relaxations...
...upon the system of travelling fellowships for graduates, also on instances of exchange professorships, and the like. It is hard to see why the same reasoning does not apply, and with equal force, to travelling scholarships for undergraduate. It is an outworn doctrine that the American undergraduate is a schoolboy needing constant discipline lest the desire for learning die entirely within his breast. He is being now, rather, subjected to contacts that are in themselves educational. Such is discussion with a competent tutor. Such, also, might well be study, for one year out of the four, at a foreign university...
...Harvard tennis teams play this afternoon, the 1930 combination opposing the invading University of Pennsylvania Freshmen on the Divinity School Courts at 3.30 o'clock and the the University Second team journeying to Exeter to engage the schoolboy racquetmen on foreign territory...