Radio Boys Loyalty; Or, Bill Brown Listens In
staged a complete breakdown of the hazing habit at Marshallton Tech. Strangely perhaps there was no blame nor suspicion put upon Bill and Gus for the
ethods already mastered by those of their own age appeal to boys more than the teachings of their elders. So, although the students were getting, or had got, the theory of radio activity and the practice of wireless fully stuffed into them, they turned often to Bill an
us rented an unused storeroom in the basement of the dormitory. They cleared it out, sent for their own tools at Freeport, purchased others-a foot-power lathe, a jigsaw and a
and a finer comradeship among the students. The professors, who often visited and even worked in the little shop-s
valuable ideas out of class, and got some himself, being also a deadhead. And Search, the manual-training teacher, who knew the us
r indulging in contests, but content to work hard at the things that best kept him fit. He had elected not to put himself under the instructor, grudging the time. But one day when he went over and, with his bare, work-hardened fists, punched a livel
s you may have noticed. Hurt it once on a lathe in my
hat," said the inst
e time nor the inclination. Must work and no
tainly got a wicked right
e both," assert
r exercise; the rest was spent in study, brief eating and no more sleep than he n
receivers were equal to more than a thousand miles, with strong, durable batteries and very wide amplification. As with their first radio and the one for their good old friend,
hey charged twenty dollars each, and made a profit
n cases about the size of an ordinary paper shoe box, the lids when opened forming the upright panels and the loop a?rials hinged to open out and upright. Being rather unique
ooling, and being more deeply interested in their work than in anything
lation at fraternity and boarding houses were found to work most satisfactorily
e a sort of wages if you want to, or you needn't. You did all of the plann
ipedon! What are you trying to get through your topknot, an
er-Bi
get out of these other sets will see us through all of next year nicely, without worrying. Then something will
course, but
attery coil at you-'b'gorry'-as Mr. Hooper says. Well, now,