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Stover at Yale

Stover at Yale

by Johnson, Owen, 1878-1952

BookID: 46674

Language:English

Illustrator:Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo, 1871-1953

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

College storiesYale University -- Fiction

Description

"Stover at Yale" by Owen Johnson is a novel serialized in 1911 that depicts undergraduate life at Yale at the turn of the twentieth century. Dink Stover arrives at Yale with a strong reputation from his prep school days, ready to prove himself on the football field and in campus life. But he soon confronts Yale's powerful secret society system and the social pressures that come with it. As Stover navigates rivalries, athletics, and friendships, he must decide what kind of man he wants to become within Yale's demanding social hierarchy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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