Word: schools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: Monday morning quarterback school is called to order, gentlemen. Carl Snavely of Cornell and Red Blaik of Dartmouth go to the head of the class this morning. Step right up, boys...
...Professor: "We understand what you mean, Dick, but I'd like to see you after school for a few minutes. Now, let's hear about our other mid-western invasion from Ducky Pond of Yale...
...over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...
Last week at Andover, Phillips Academy's shrewd Headmaster Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with "geese") adopted a collegiate custom by staging his school's first Alumni Day. To Andover's 162-year-old campus, glorious in sunshine and brilliant autumn foliage, came 175 old Andover boys. Oldest were a pair of survivors from the class...
Andover's old boys were not sure whether they altogether approved their school's transformation, were reassured when they learned that much of it had been contributed by an old boy they knew well, the late Thomas Cochran, who arrived at the school with 50?, worked his way through, eventually became a Morgan partner. Headmaster Fuess hastened to add that the school "really has not changed in spirit," told his proudest news: that last year 213 of the school's 700-odd boys had scholarships, that the captains of seven Andover teams are working their way through...