Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holidays are really anachronisms, made vital by the fact that there is still, even in the college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...
...class football players had their first-taste of real action yesterday afternoon when the Sophomore squad scrimmaged for almost an hour against two Boston Latin elevens. Although the scrimmage was carried on in informal manner with frequent breaks in the play, the Sophomores had a decided advantage over their schoolboy rivals throughout the workout...
...following Sunday's rotogravures you saw somebody's picture and (in small type, reading left to right) "Big Bill" Edwards. People who called Edwards the Peter Pan of Princeton, who were bored by his after-dinner speeches, who declared that he was at heart a schoolboy who blustered his way through life seeking the loud worship of some irrecoverable football game, such people ate their words the day he stood next Mayor Gaynor. For a maniac, jerking out a pistol, emptied it at New York's good Mayor. "Big Bill" Edwards, for one moment of splendor...
Married. General Erich von Ludendorff, 61; to Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, at Tutzing, Bavaria. He wore his general's uniform, all his medals, his spiked helmet; so did his best man, Major Siry, ex-adjutant. Also, he gave motorcycles to the two schoolboy sons of his new wife...
...other events William McKinley was nominated Republican presidential color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...