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Milton Green who decided not to run the low hurdles, secured a first in the broad jump and second in the high hurdles. In the jump he was nine inches ahead of his nearest competitor, Stan Johnson of M.I.T., while in the highs he was nosed out by his schoolboy and college rival, Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth. This was the first time this season in three starts that the Green runner has beaten Green...
Andover will be the favorite in Class A by virtue of two wins over the Harvard Freshmen in winter and spring track. They wil be pushed by St. John's Prep, however, which won the schoolboy meet in New York this winter with only a handful of athletes...
...Congress passed an act providing a gallery in the Capitol to house "statues of two distinguished citizens from each state who were illustrious for their historic renown." Since then 35 states have made contributions to Statuary Hall. A few of the figures are known to every schoolboy (Washington and Lee from Virginia; Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history...
...Cleveland, the Detroit Tigers, last year's World Series winners, aided by expert pitching from famed Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, now 24, beat the home team...
Sirs: ... It seems but fair that you do a bit more investigating into what Dr. Frederick A. Cook has done and what he has not done. I heard Dr. Cook lecture, very, very modest in his claims, immediately after he had returned through the angry-schoolboy newspaper and telegraphic firespittings of Peary. ... If Dr. Cook had not found the North Pole, he thought so and has shown as much, if not more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce...