Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contempt of sentimental gushings and impassioned pleas for bigger and better foreign relations, the solid economic and political significance of tolerance and understanding are too often underestimated. On this latter ground the fanfare of student voyages, international Schools, and even the schoolboy correspondence in French, find a justification. Meanwhile the position occupied by Harvard in foreign eyes, offers to a much greater degree the opportunity for utilizing such contact. With this in mind the University should take a certain pride in playing a part, even if subordinate to the local Rotary Club...
...called basic courses, like History 1, Government 1, and Fine Arts 1c and 1d, never have been laden with an excess of the books demanded for collateral reading for each test. Since the directors of these courses consider the schoolboy system of weekly or fortnightly tests to be a necessary part of them, they might lessen the burden by more efficient administration of the library. It is inconvenient enough to be obliged to wait for books during the hours that the library is open, without being hampered by the further stringent regulations in force at Fogg. There one finds...
...last meeting of the Schoolboy Rowing Association it was decided to hold the annual Schoolboy Regatta, which is sponsored by Harvard, in the Charles River Basin on Saturday June 1. The event which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...
...This does not mean that the good schoolboy athlete is necessarily a poor college student, but it does show that the good schoolboy athlete is under a handicap in college, probably because he has lost the proper perspective between studies and athletics. Experience has shown that the average star athlete in school, is an indifferent or, at best, average school student. When he enters college he become a below-the-average or probation student and consequently is not of much use to his team...
...After discussion with several of the institutions in the vicinity of Boston," the letter says, "we at Harvard have reached the conclusion that basketball is suffering from over-strict officiating...One evil seems to be the practise of most officials of working schoolboy and college games at practically the same time. While one set of rules seems to be satisfactory for both games, certainly a far different officiating technique is necessary and the good schoolboy official is not at all satisfactory for college work...