Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of England's Rugby School is a granite slab with this inscription: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
Five years later, with an equally fine disregard for tyrannical tradition, Rugby's new Head Master Thomas Arnold picked up another ball. He modified the old master-&-boy absolutism into the prefect system of student government. Arnold's innovation soon spread, like the game of Rugby, through the English public (i.e., private) schools...
...household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs paralyzed, after having been shot by Randolph in a moment of hysterical terror...
Sinister Summer. In this atmosphere, half sickening and half magical, the events of the summer continue to shock the boy's senses like the bluejay and the red ball. At first Joel misses his aunt in New Orleans. But the sinister fascinations of Skully's Landing increase, centering on the tomboy, Idabel, who lives up the road, and on Cousin Randolph, who drinks sherry, calls him "darling" and holds his hand...
What does the crystal ball hold for the optimistic Freshmen? The two easy openers with Tabor Academy and Penn Character raise the spring curtain on an Exeter home-and-home series. Andover, Brown, Dartmouth, Northeastern, and Yale in quick doses...