Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...
Until it met the Seconds last Monday in a practice match, the Freshman tennis team was undefeated, but at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Bare Burn Country Club it will oppose some of the strongest players in schoolboy tennis and the Crimson should be pushed to the limit...
Coach Stewart will probably give Puffer another chance on the mound for the seconds. The latter's main fault against Andover was in his fielding. His pitching against the schoolboy's sluggers was above reproach, and Coach Stewart is confident that practice will improve his fielding...
There were two outstanding heroes in the thirty-ninth annual Harvard schoolboy classic...
...Bingham '16 a decade and a half ago, was lowered by Exeter's captain, A. H. O'Neil, by one-fifth of a second to 58 4-5 seconds. C. E. Borah of Andover proved himself able to cover 100 and 220 yards as fast as almost any other schoolboy in the country. Despite a wet track and a fine mist blowing in from the east, Borah found little difficulty in running two trial heats and then winning the shorter dash in 10 seconds flat, equalling the record made way back in 1899; and then two more trials heats...