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...word about the requirements for promotion to the sophomore class, that is, the standard of work which a freshman is obliged to maintain throughout his freshman year. You have heard that this is pretty severe and that the standard is high. I will take the case of a boy who came down from a large preparatory school last year. He was a real athlete and he gave most of the fall season to athletics; he also gave all the spring to it, and he did a certain amount of out-of-season practice as well. In addition...
...alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
...Bruce: "Outraged nature claims its rights, and there is nothing which I regard with more satisfaction than the fact that when I was a boy, living in a remote countryside, all the white citizens of that community, without reference to station in life, were banded together like brothers for the purpose of nullifying those atrocious amendments to the Federal Constitution and defeating the will of Congress, and, thank God, they defeated...
JUNGLE JOE?Clarence Hawkes?Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ($1.50). Unfortunate the boy or girl who grows up, or has grown up, without reading about Shovelhorns, the moose monarch; Shaggycoat, the astute beaver; Black Bruin, the genial bear, and a score of other wild personages whose biographies have been set down by the typewriter of painstaking Clarence Hawkes...
...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...