For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport

Barbour, Ralph Henry, 1870-1944Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
326K words
Chapters
33

Tags

English Originals Young Adult FictionSports Campus LifeComing of AgeGrowing UpYouthful VibeStudent Reading

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic SportAuthor: Barbour, Ralph Henry, 1870-1944,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Jan 15, 2015

Editor's review

A typical late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century American school sports novel, Ralph Henry Barbour specialized in coming-of-age stories set in boarding schools. This book revolves around school honor and interscholastic athletics, weaving teamwork, personal responsibility, the pressure of winning and losing, and youthful friendship into everyday campus life. The pace is brisk, with plot driven by matches and training scenes, and it carries a distinct period flavor. Its value lies not in complex literary technique but in its authentic portrayal of school sports culture of the era and of adolescents shaping themselves under the pull of collective honor. For readers studying young adult literature, the school novel genre, or the evolution of sports narrative, it is a usable primary text; for general readers it is more like a window onto old-style campus life, suited to chapter-by-chapter reading in leisure moments, to feel the tension before and after matches and the spirit of youth. As a public-domain ebook, the text is easy to obtain and also suitable as English extensive reading material.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the opening chapters first to get familiar with the characters and school background, then move on to the main competition storyline.
  2. Treat each match as a standalone unit, and after reading reflect on how the team handled pressure.
  3. For English extensive reading, read through the plot first, then on a second pass pay attention to period expressions and campus customs.
  4. Read alongside school novels of the same period to observe changes in sports narrative patterns.

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Contents

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FAQ

What is this book mainly about? Set in boarding school life, the novel revolves around school honor and interscholastic sports competitions, depicting how boys behave and grow as they face winning, losing, and responsibility in training, competition, and collective life. It is a young adult novel of the school sports genre.
What English level is it suitable for? The text is an early twentieth-century English young adult novel. Sentence structures are not very complex, but it contains period expressions and campus slang. Readers with high school-level English reading ability and above can attempt to read it through; beginners are advised to use a dictionary or read a plot summary first.
As a public-domain ebook, what is the edition situation? This book is released by Project Gutenberg and is a public-domain electronic text, easy to obtain and free of copyright barriers. Layout may differ across devices; readers can organize the table of contents by chapter themselves for segmented reading.

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About the author

Barbour, Ralph Henry, 1870-1944 Author

Ralph Henry Barbour (1870–1944) was an American writer of juvenile fiction. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life such as education and professional positions are difficult to verify, yet forty of his works are held in this collection, which attests to the volume of his output. His novels mostly take school life and sports as their subject matter, repeatedly depicting teenage athletic scenes such as football, track and field, and rowing; representative works include Full-Back Foster, Forward Pass, For Yardley, and Four Afloat. These stories move briskly and emphasize teamwork, fair play, and youthful growth, carrying the strong flavor of early twentieth-century American school fiction and enjoying popularity among young readers of the time. Barbour's style is plain and fluent, and he was skilled at portraying character through conflicts on and off the field, earning him a place in the popular genre of sports fiction; his works also offer lively material for understanding the school sports culture of that era.