Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good training that their study gives are best acquired from reading in the original. The one unfavorable aspect of the elementary classics courses at Harvard is the manner in which they are given. One really cannot achieve a real understanding of the authors from reading them in a schoolboy manner in Latin B. Such uninteresting teaching is not conducive to acquiring a love of the language or the things which are written in it. One learned classicist has suggested that the real way to secure a knowledge and love of ancient literature is to read it in translation until...
Among the prominent players that the Class of 1938 throws against Yale also at New Haven this afternoon, are two former schoolboy soccer captains. Theodore P. Rebic, the Crimson leader, led his Fieldston. New York team, while Carl Shirley filled a similar role at Andover. George C. Smith and Richard McC. Grandin are the Harvard high scorers...
Outstanding in the display of this well-balanced forward wall was the work of David Glueck, former Exeter player, who turned in a fine defensive game at right guard, stopping several schoolboy plays cold with decisive tackles. Although the backfield contains no stars of the first order, O'Toole, Oaks, and Jerome form the nucleus of what promises to be a better than average secondary...
Twenty-two years old, 6 ft., 4 in. tall, Schoolboy Rowe's achievement climaxed a season in which he had already distinguished himself by winning 16 consecutive games. At New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., James Mutrie, one of the organizers of major-league baseball in New York, was so impressed by Rowe's size and prowess that he told reporters how he had come to nickname the New York team "Giants" in 1888: "All the players were tall that year. One day I looked out on the field and shouted: 'You're giants in size and you're giants...
Harvard had its one big chance in the opening period, when Dave Glueck, former Exeter star, crashed through to block a schoolboy punt on its own four-yard line, and Harvard recovered the ball on the 12-yard stripe...