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Yale has for some years realized the need for meeting half way the boys who want to enter the University but who are unable, because of their particular preparation to pass the entrance examinations, and in 1920 the plan was adopted whereby a boy from an approved school, recommended by his principal or headmaster, is examined in English and four other subjects of his senior school year, and admitted or rejected on the basis of what he had studied rather than on the arbitrary requirements which the University might set up and with which he could not comply. . . . The plan...
...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...
...East Prussia, in a back room built on to a brewery, descended from Mennonite peasant stock, he was a delicate child whose bent for reading and things literary developed early. His mother, saving from her " milk money," managed to send him to school, where he proved neither a model boy nor a sissy, developed a passion for the theatre and had several timidly distant affairs of the heart, which never got beyond the dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced him to give up the trade...
...great contest of model airplanes is to be held at St. Louis in October. The trophy is a bronze statute of a boy launching an airplane. Art schools all over the country are competing for a $100 prize for the best design. Modern sculptors will find a stimulating subject the ancients did not dream...
More than 3000 Boy Scouts marched on to Soldiers Field last Saturday to participate in a rally that was watched by several thousand spectators, including Governor Cox, Lieutenant-General Miles, and other distinguished guests. The program contained many impressive features, of which perhaps the most prominent were the saluting of the flag by the entire body of scouts, and the repeating of the oath...