Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West's concern with the religious illiteracy of college students who spell "prophet" as "profit" (TIME, Sept. 25) brings to mind a private collection of schoolboy howlers shown me by a friend who was tutoring a freshman economics class at the University of Toronto two years ago. On an examination, one of his students wrote to the effect that "depressions are caused when the prophets are not so good...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...
...writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
...Through our members we hope to spread the word of our new activity and in time accomplish a forceful organization of men who will enjoy as an active hobby getting in touch with their local schoolboy athletes, helping them know of Harvard's interest in them, get them to come to Harvard, follow their progress at Harvard and take a 'fatherly' pride in having done well by the boy and by Harvard...
...Club is planning a brochure to be sent to members and other alumni interested in the program, which will help graduates do a "sensible and effective job in talking with a schoolboy about Harvard...