Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman four-oared crews, 5 and 8, yesterday raced the Nobel and Greenough four-oar over the half-mile course on the Charles. The schoolboy boat got off to a better start, rowed a better-judged race, and finished stronger and a full length ahead of either of the 1924 fours, covering the course in 3 minutes and 27 1-4 seconds...
Evenly matched with Pfaffman is Farnham, who, as Captain of the Exeter team last year, made a name for himself as a schoolboy player. Farnham also won the Interscholastics at Cambridge last spring; and during the summer distinguished himself in several tournaments in the Middle West. He has a rather slow serve and stroke, but his unvarying steadiness offsets his lack of speed...
...every age, and today, when even the smallest hamlet nearly always possesses some sort of public reading-room, it is easy to believe that this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court may be used to advantage to compel an acquaintance with standard literature...
...date for the annual Harvard Invitation regatta has been tentatively set at May 25th. Unless there is a change in plans this yearly event in which chiefly schoolboy crews are entered will last till the evening of Saturday, May 28th...
...schoolboy team was defeated by the yearlings earlier in the season, and is not expected to offer very strong opposition, with Dwight and Cordingly right wing and right center respectively as the only men who starred against 1924. Practice will be held regularly today and tomorrow in preparation for the game...