Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three events are scheduled for this afternoon, the races between the schoolboy eights and fourth 1923 crews, and the wherry race postponed from today. The schedule follows...
...Schoolboy eights...
...United States and the One-Mile Relay Preparatory School Championship of the United States in the recent Pennsylvania Relay Carnival, will be easily Exeter's strongest man in the dashes. Together with G. W. Chapman, P. E. Yea- ton and S. C. Swede, winners of the quarter-mile schoolboy race at the B. A. A. games last winter, he will fight for honors in the sprints against Kennedy, C. H. Hawes, Howard and V. Chapin of the yearling outfit. The half-mile and the mile-runs will be very closely contested since the distance men on each team are exceptionally...
...alumni, undergraduates and friends of Harvard are urged to refrain completely from offering any inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive in so doing is that boy's athletic skill or promise. The Athletic Committee feels that artificial hospitality of any sort, such as trips to the university, automobile rides, the are parties, etc., constitutes an "inducement," under the meaning of this resolution, little less mischievous than offers of money, jobs, and other valuable considerations, which have been already specifically condemned. The Athletic Committee believes that persons attempting to induce schoolboys to enter Harvard for athletic...
...Young Tom" doesn't recall anything in "Treasure Island."--perhaps it was young Jim Hawkins that the enthusiastic press agent meant; but we are in favor of anything that will introduce "Moby Dick" and "Typee" to the schoolboy of the future generation...