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After spending the past week training at Syracuse, N. Y. Harvard's lacrosse team terminated its spring practices at Schenectady, N. Y. on Saturday with a 9 to 1 drubbing at the hands of Union College. Previous to their departure for Syracuse the team had won a game from the Alumni by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TROUNCED BY UNION LACROSSE TEAM | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...HOLDEN New York, N. Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...East View Penitentiary, East View, N. Y., last week arrived Hugh Finn, 55, to begin a six-months' sentence after his 49th conviction. Convict Finn, no minatory criminal, has served sentences only for minor offenses like malicious mischief, petit larceny, abusive language, disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

National Indoor Tennis Doubles Championship?Won by Francis T. Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., and William Tatem Tilden II, Philadelphia, in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Citizens | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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