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This novel's first sentence is: "I was unusually drunk the night my father died." The speaker is Marcus Hendrycks, a 21-year-old Cambridge undergraduate, reeking rich. He proceeds to paint a sharper-than-average picture of gambling, snobbery and alcoholism among the more gilded British collegians. At the end of his wild night he finds that his father is not only dead but bankrupt and that his real life has begun. On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums...
...Schoolroom, in short, is one more of those novels in which a young man tells of his education, his quest for a meaning and a course in life. If the young man is intelligent enough or alive enough, such a story can have extraordinary power and significance. Since Marcus Hendrycks is not, his tale is rather a social document than a work of thought...
...Evarts, Marcus Beebe, and Captain Al Reeves played a bang-up game for the Freshmen, while Harmon, Meehan, and Ordway starred for St. Paul...
Hodder plans to use the same team he started against Belmont Hill, with the first line sparked by individualist Marcus Beebe, who tallied four times in Tuesday's game. Backing up this first wave is an equally effective trio, whose style depends not so much on spectacular brilliance as on intelligent team play. This line accounted for three of the four goals scored in the game with Mt. St. Charles, the closest shave yet experienced by the Freshmen...
...Lawrence Marcus '38, Oakwood Lane, Dallas, Texas...