Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited to Brazil as the guest of the Government and also to Argentina. I plan to go. After that, if the voyage is not too tiring, I should like to visit the United States...
Last week, at the Metropolitan's second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped...
...control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...Elmhurst, Long Island, had the two fastest runners of the meet. Arthur Cooperman and Edward Wells of the New York school took the lead about half way along in race, and were never headed to the finish. They showed as good speed as has ever been seen in the schoolboy meet, and their team placed second only because the other three of its runners finished in nineteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-third positions...