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Word: schoolboys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge Latin team at this stage has a win and a loss to its credit Melrose defeated them 2-1, but they showed real calibre in defeating the strong Newton High outfit. Harlowe is the star of the schoolboy ice squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND SEXTET MEETS CANTABS ON ARENA ICE | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

...second team, under the leadership of C. I. Wylde '26, will go into its first encounter Saturday, weather permitting, when it invades the Milton Academy rink Coach Stewart of Milton, well-known referee, considers the Milton team one of the best schoolboy sextets he has ever seen, so the Crimson scrubs will have their work cut out for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET READY FOR NOTRE DAME CLASH | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

This is a frank statement of the psychology behind the preparatory schoolboy's attitude toward college. Athletics and social success loom over-whelmingly large; the activities of the mind are dwarfed into insignificance. It is the same psychology which remains to a less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL DEBATING | 1/4/1927 | See Source »

Probably the most effective means for the restoration of a proper balance between these activities, and athletics and social success, in the schoolboy, and also in the undergraduate mind, is wide publicity and active proselyting, methods which have heretofore been largely confined to athletics. The exhibition debate at Milton Academy is an admirable forward step in this direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL DEBATING | 1/4/1927 | See Source »

Before coming to Harvard, the 1927 football captain attended the Loomis Institute at Windsor, Connecticut, where his fame as a schoolboy athlete was unsurpassed in the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pratt, Star Crimson Tackle, Will Lead Gridiron Forces Next Year | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

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