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...blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find his own name in last place. Skinnymalink Jamieson, father of "Slug" Jamieson, makes the commencement speech in an outlandish Scots dialect while the ashamed "Slug" betrays him in the hope of ingratiating himself with his scornful fellows. Out of the intellectual, moral and personal involvements of the masters and the equally complicated problems of the boys, Bruce Marshall has written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Britannica | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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