“The School Four” is a story of football
and rowing, its scene laid in a private school in
an Eastern city. As in the Phillips Exeter books,
the aim has been to keep the athletics practical
and technically correct, and at the same time to
present such conceptions of life and conduct as
may encourage the boy reader to face his own
school problems with the right spirit. Later volumes
will treat successively of the city high
school and the country boarding-school.
To Mr. John Richardson, Jr., captain of the
undefeated Harvard crew of 1908, the author
owes a special debt for expert counsel, for the
freedom of the Harvard coaching launch, and,
above all else, for personal inspiration.
