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That Scholarship Boy
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Author : Emma Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-07
That Scholarship Boy written by Emma Leslie and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-07 with categories.
"[...] 'But his jacket can't hurt you, ' interrupted his sister, 'you don't have to wear it.' 'You stupid duffer! don't he go to Torrington's, I tell you, and haven't we got to stand up for the honour of the school?' 'Who-the boys or the head master?' asked Duffy innocently. 'Why, all of us, to be sure, and we mean to do it too. Why, Torrington's is as good as Eton.' 'Oh yes, of course it's a good school, ' admitted Duffy. 'Yes, and we mean to keep it so; we don't mean to have any cads among us.'[...]."
That Scholarship Boy
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Author : Leslie Emma
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
That Scholarship Boy written by Leslie Emma and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with categories.
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Scholarship Boy
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Author : Larry I. Palmerr
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Scholarship Boy written by Larry I. Palmerr and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Palmer was fourteen years old in September 1958 when he made the unlikely journey alone by train to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. It is impossible to read this boy’s story―‘ninth child of ten, and the sixth of seven sons’―without feeling the loneliness of that first passage away from home―a black boy crossing into a bastion of white privilege―and the scale of the transformation that awaited him."―Carrie Brown, author of The Stargazer's Sister "My friendship with Larry has been among the most enduring of my Exeter friendships, but―before I read his memoir of social and racial dislocation―I never knew the story that unfolded in the home Larry left when he came to Exeter. Larry’s remarkable family story gives me a deeper appreciation of someone I met as a teenager and have known all my life. As a teammate and a friend, I always loved Larry. Now I understand him more."―John Irving “Larry Palmer’s Scholarship Boy is a poignant exploration of family, longing, and cultural disorientation, seen through the eyes of an African American teenager sent to live and study at a prestigious New England prep school in the 1950s. This absorbing story reminds us that the questions of race and identity we wrestle with today are nothing new, and progress, when it comes at all, often comes at a snail’s pace.”―Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire “Near the end of Larry Palmer’s fine memoir Scholarship Boy his family tries to assemble for a family portrait. The picture is difficult to compose: the family members are moving hither and yon, reassembling in different configurations, struggling to honor the intricacies that govern the Palmer clan. And they are a rich and complex family, with Lear-like grand personalities. Scholarship Boy is also a book about a very brilliant young man who went to Phillips Exeter, Harvard College, and Yale Law School. It is a tale of his loneliness, his desire to honor his parents’ dictates, his difficulty in living in two worlds, and his ability, thank goodness, to find mentors, institutions, and friends to sustain him. It is also a very poignant narrative, full of pathos and love, about one family’s participation in recent African American history, including segregation, school integration, and dreams fulfilled and nullified. Honest, gracefully written, and uncompromisingly vulnerable, Larry Palmer’s book is unceremoniously generous. Palmer does not grandstand: He is never simply this or that. He is, in the best sense, simply himself: A man trying to stand in a furious whirlwind.” ―Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature Emeritus, Cornell University “On the surface, this is the story of a black boy’s adventure of finding his way in the all-white, blazers, ties and sports world of an all-boys boarding school in the 1950s. Its heart, however, is the family this boy comes from. As the next to the youngest of ten, it was the older brothers and sisters who gave this scholarship boy the chops to navigate the treacherous waters of an alien world with aplomb and make the best of his opportunities. What an apt tribute that each of them gets to step into the limelight of this luminous coming-of-age memoir.”―Annette Gendler, author of Jumping Over Shadows and How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History
The Scholarship Boy Etc
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Author : John Henry Gordon FREEMAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Scholarship Boy Etc written by John Henry Gordon FREEMAN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with categories.
Scholarship Boy
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Author : John Fletcher Clews Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Scholarship Boy written by John Fletcher Clews Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Scholarship Boy 1870 1939
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Author : Margaret M. Gaines
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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David Madison
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Author : Dermot O'Hanlon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-24
David Madison written by Dermot O'Hanlon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Friendship categories.
When David Madison goes to St Donat's Abbey, a leafy public school in the heart of the Essex countryside, he seems to have a glorious future ahead of him. However, he's on a scholarship and for that a few of his peers are unable to forgive him. When his beloved Classics teacher falls ill and is replaced by a much younger colleague, his enemies find a new ally in the snobbish and sadistic new master and David's school life takes a decided turn for the worse.
Hunger Of Memory
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Author : Richard Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2004-02-03
Hunger Of Memory written by Richard Rodriguez and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
The Scholarship Boy
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Author : Dermot O'Hanlon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-29
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A synopsis of this drama will give a taste of its theme and quality:David Madison is on a schoarship at St.Donat's Abbey, a public school,. He quickly becomes popular with most of the other boys, Tony Masefield being his special friend. The exceptions are Richard DeMacey and Gilbert Roye, who resent him because of his popularity and because he is a free pupil; and they behave towards him in a cruel, snobbish and vindictive way.Things suddenly worsen even more when Mr.Ledwidge, an old and much-loved master, becomes ill and goes into a nursing home for treatment. He is replaced by Coleman, a pitiless, unstable young man, who immediately institutes a reign of terror in Lower School, to the delight of DeMacey and Roye and their cronies, whom he more or less plays up to, seeing the way things are. David becomes the particular target of his vicious and sadistic ways, being considered safe and fair game because he is a scholarship boy.Matters continue to deteriorate when Belford, a big, loutish, loud-mouthed bully, returns to school in spring, to join his old cronies, DeMacey and Roye and their friends, After a slanging match in the Common Room of Abbot's House, which ends in a boxing-cum-wrestling melee when David comes to grips with Belford when aiding the lively Tony, whose hot temper has got him into difficulties with the bully, Coleman arrives on the scene, and, as usual, picks on David as the instigator of the brawl. He reports him to the Headmaster, Dr.Princeton, who is unaware of what is going on in Lower School, as a bad influence and a trouble-maker which David answers in silence, knowing the futility of contradicting a teacher's word. Dr. Princeton tells him that in view of Coleman's statement, and since his school- work is no longer up to standard for a boy on a scholarship - he will have to report him to the Board of Governors, and warns him that this may mean him leaving the school. There is a temporary reprieve from this dread prospect when David, with the assistance of DeMacey, who is gradually cooling towards Roy and Belford, beginning to see them for what they really are. and warming towards David and his friends, bravely takes charge of things when Tony suddenly collapses and is rushed to hospital as an emergency when an eroded blood vessel causes serious haemorrhaging. This is the climax of an eventful day, when David, knowing that Tony isn't feeling well, despite his protests, shoulders the blame of authorship when Coleman is virtually handed an exercise-book by Roye which has very derogatory remarks about the master in it, and is given a severe beating.Roye and Belford watch venomously the growing friendship between Richard and David, waiting for an opportunity to harm David if they can.. This presents itself when two parcels are delivered to the school, one for David, the other for Coleman. They hide David,s parcel and switch the labels to Coleman's parcel. When Coleman hears that David has his parcel, he refuses to listen to any explanation for the peculiar mix-up and gives David his worst flogging.David can take no more. He runs away from school, but is brought back by the school doctor. It is only now that a horrified Dr.Princeton learns the whole sorry story of what has been going on in Lower School without his knowledge. In a charged, unofficial inquiry, he confronts Coleman, who tries to wriggle out of the accusations that are levelled against him by the boys of Lower School, who now feel free to talk out openly, by accusing them of grotesquely exaggerating everything and acting out of spite. To no avail, Dr.Princeton dismisses him from the school on the spot, and Roye and Belford are expelled when their part in the nefarious parcel affair is exposed in the same inquiry.All ends well. Mr.Ledwidge returns to the school, and Tony Masefield, too, and everything is back to glorious normality.
Old School
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Author : Tobias Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Old School written by Tobias Wolff and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with Fiction categories.
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.