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While Brigadier Geoffrey Walsh, the 27th's commander, smilingly looked on, men tackled each other in schoolboy fashion. Some, already embarked, dashed down for a second round of goodbyes with wives & children. Above the din of shouts and whistles, a group of French Canadians rousingly sang their regimental song, bag pipes skirled Tipperary, and a brass band blared Mad'moiselle from Armenti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Off to Europe | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...should like to suggest that the CRIMSON make an endeavor to remove the schoolboy tone from its music reviews. There is no doubt that its reviewers have conscientiously taken Music I, that they are eternally aware of thematic structure, of the "Middle Period" in Beethoven, of the beauties of pre-Baroque music; let them also discover that the function of a music critic is not to review the Beethoven Violin Concerto, but to review its performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Professional Oasis | 11/6/1951 | See Source »

...Garden-Arena Corporation's warning last spring that practice might be seriously reduced aroused the fear that the Crimson, without a rink of its own, would have no practice ice. Garden-Arena solved the problem by cutting the time allotment of schoolboy sixes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Will Get Full Use of Arena | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

...Every schoolboy can place Roger Williams in worldly history as the founder of Rhode Island. He was also a most otherworldly American. In 1652, he published a little book entitled Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health, which contains some of the most beautiful devotional passages ever written by an American. Long forgotten, the book has now been reprinted with an essay by Baptist Historian Winthrop S. Hudson (Westminster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encouragement for Mary | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Princeton University Library acquired an arithmetic notebook kept by a 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy back in 1721. Sample problem: "A Certain man and his wife did usually drink out a vessell of beere in 12 dayes and the Husband found by offten experience That his wife being absent it would Last him 20 dayes then. Question is how many dayes the wife would be a drinking it alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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