Hickey is the despair of his masters and the hero of the Third Form at a New Jersey boarding school, where Owen Johnson set his Lawrenceville tales. Declamation drill, a pancake-eating record, a game-winning run, a protest against the dining-hall doughnuts and a campaign of persecution and friendship fill these linked episodes of schoolboy life.
Funny, affectionate American school stories from the author of Stover at Yale. Download the free EPUB.