Owen Johnson (1) (1878–1952)

A 1910 school boy story. Expelled for disruptive mischief Stover arrives at Lawrenceville in spring term thinking he has a handle on things only to make as bad a mess for himself as this goody-two-shoes of a how a boy becomes a man book can propose. How he takes advantage of his scrappy and imaginative (only by the author's designation) nature for the next two years is the center and final portion with way too much football.

As a Yale graduate student and a reader of te opular fiction of the turn of the century, I have long known of this as a classic of its kind, though I have not read it.