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The School Four
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The school four is a story of football and rowing, its scene laid in a private school in an Eastern city. As in the Phillips Exeter books, the aim has been to keep the athletics practical and technically correct, and at the same time to present such conceptions of life and conduct as may encourage the boy reader to face his own school problems With the right spirit. Later vol umes Will treat successively of the city high school and the country boarding-school.
The school four is a story of football and rowing, its scene laid in a private school in an Eastern city. As in the Phillips Exeter books, the aim has been to keep the athletics practical and technically correct, and at the same time to present such conceptions of life and conduct as may encourage the boy reader to face his own school problems With the right spirit. Later vol umes Will treat successively of the city high school and the country boarding-school.
338 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2009
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July 31, 2017
This is the first boys school story I've read, and also the first American one. A lot of it was pretty much what I was expecting -- lots of athletics (mostly football and rowing, in tons of detail), and the usual schoolboy honour code. But to my surprise the adults were not all honourable men, and part of the book was about dealing with deliberate unfairness and there isn't an easy answer -- So that was unexpected and interesting.
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