Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kipling?Schoolboy Lyrics (first edition...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...
Another plan to be discussed at the meeting is that of freshmen hospitality men. Two graduates from each school opposing a Freshman team at Cambridge will be on hand at a reception of the schoolboy team at the Phillips Brooks House after the game. E. W. Sexton '29, chairman of the Hospitality Committee, will be at the Executive Board meeting to explain this plan to the Freshmen. If these schoolboy receptions prove successful, if is expected that similar welcomes will be given to visiting university teams in the future...
...University soccer team will meet an aggregation of booters from Clark University of Worcester on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock, while the Freshmen team will see action at the same time at Andover against the schoolboy eleven...