Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Hadley? Ten years ago every politically-minded schoolboy knew his name. Why? Because...
...advanced jovially into the office last week, looking a trifle thinner than when I last saw him. He had returned from delivering 180 lectures; had purchased a large collection of etchings with the proceeds from them, thus indulging his latest hobby. He acted for all the world like a schoolboy who has just started for his summer vacation, and affirmed that he was enjoying himself. He will not return to England until the end of June. Meanwhile, the author of Fortitude, The Cathedral, Jeremy, et cetera, et cetera, will en joy himself some more...
...first the idea of Latin, even of "simplified Latin" as a common medium of expression, obtains none too sympathetic a reception. It is difficult for the average American to conceive of a person actually speaking Latin, even if that person were Macaulay's schoolboy himself and the language had all its gerundives and supines omitted. Professor West, however, approaches the problem from a new angle. He does not suggest Latin because of any inherent advantages, but arrives at his conclusion only after a careful examination has exposed the impossibility of using any other language either modern, or ancient, or artificial...
Choate School of Wellingford, Connecticut, won the schoolboy eight oar race yesterday afternoon in the Basin, arriving at the mile and finish mark two lengths ahead of their hereditary rivals, Kent School...
...University Reception Committee has appointed 11 members of the Freshman class to form an Entertainment Committee, which will have as its object the welcoming of all schoolboy teams that come to play the Freshmen. The members of the committee follow: Francis Lowell Barton of Boston, chairman; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Frank Paul Kane of Radnor, Pa.; Joseph Wheelock Lund of Boston; Edward Walker Marshall of Portland, Me.; Dudley Merrill of New York, N. Y.; Frederick Strong Moseley Jr. of Boston; Henry Parrish 2nd of New York, N. Y.; Albert Hart Stafford of Newtonville; Charles Folsom Walcott of Cambridge...