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| 1 | Apple Ode | BBB | Literature | Poetry |
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Apple Ode
First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. We spent several shining days picking them and were paid in cash for it. Brinker was inspired to write his Apple Ode:
Our chore
Is the core
of the war.
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| 2 | Devon Inn | BBB | Travel | Inns |
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Devon Inn
Local hotel near the Devon School.
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| 3 | The Devon School | BBB | Education | Boarding Schools |
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The Devon School
A thinly veiled portrayal of Knowles's alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. "Here boys come to be made men"
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| 4 | The Devon Winter Carnival | BBB | Entertainment | Carnivals |
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The Devon Winter Carnival
Annual festival at the Devon School.
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| 5 | The Devonian | BBB | Media | Newspapers-misc |
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The Devonian
"My God! So I really did it. You know what? I thought I was going to do it. It felt as though I had that stop watch in my head and I could hear myself going just a little bit faster than A. Hopkins Parker."
"The worst thing is there weren't any witnesses. And I'm no official timekeeper. I don't think it will count."
"Well of course it won't count."
"You can try it again and break it again. Tomorrow. We'll get the coach in here, and all the official timekeepers and I'll call up The Devonian to send a reporter and a photographer - "
He climbed out of the pool. "I'm not going to do it again," he said quietly.
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| 6 | Dr. Stanpole | BBB | Healthcare | Doctors |
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Dr. Stanpole
Doctor: Dr. Stanpole was fairly gabby too. What was he always saying. Nothing. Nothing? Well there must be something he was always saying. Everybody had something, some word, some phrase that they were always saying. The trouble with Dr. Stanpole was that his vocabulary was too large. He talked in a huge circle, he probably had a million words in his vocabulary and he had to use them all before he started over again.
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| 7 | Nervous in the Service | BBB | Literature | Poetry |
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Nervous in the Service
Gene's suggestion for a name for one of Brinker Hadley's poems.
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| 8 | Shortest War Poem Ever Written | BBB | Literature | Poetry |
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Shortest War Poem Ever Written
In addition to classes and sports and clubs, there was the war. Brinker Hadley could compose his Shortest War Poem Ever Written:
The War
Is a bore.
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| MAKE BELIEVE MAP |
| 9 | Devon River | Map | Water | Rivers |
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Devon River
We had never used this lower river, the Naguamsett, during the summer. It was ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed. A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon. It was nothing like the fresh-water Devon above the dam where we'd had so much fun, all the summer. The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland, it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.
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| 10 | The Fields Beyond | Map | Nature | Natural Areas |
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The Fields Beyond
When I got back I found him in the middle of a snowball fight in a place called the Fields Beyond. At Devon the open ground among the buildings had been given carefully English names - the Center Common, the Far Common, the Fields, and the Fields Beyond.
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| 11 | Gilman Street | Map | Transit Routes | Streets |
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Gilman Street
I walked along Gilman Street, the best street in town. The houses were as handsome and as unusual as I remembered. Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbidding as ever. I had rarely seen anyone go into one of them, or anyone playing on a lawn, or even an open window. Today with their failing ivy and stripped, moaning trees the houses looked both more elegant and more lifeless than ever.
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| 12 | Naguamsett River | Map | Water | Rivers |
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Naguamsett River
We had never used this lower river, the Naguamsett, during the summer. It was ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed. A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon. It was nothing like the fresh-water Devon above the dam where we'd had so much fun, all the summer. The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland, it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.
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| OTHER |
| 13 | Blitzball | Other | Sports | Sports |
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Blitzball
"Let's make it have something to do with the war," suggested Bobby Zane. "Like a blitzkrieg or something."
"Blitzkrieg," repeated Finny doubtfully.
"We could figure out some kind of blitzkrieg baseball," I said.
"We'll call it blitzkrieg ball," said Bobby.
"Or just blitzball," reflected Finny. "Yes, blitzball."
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| 14 | Bobby Zane, Finny & Gene Forrester | Other | Quotes | Quotes |
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Bobby Zane, Finny & Gene Forrester
Bobby Zane: Let's make it have something to do with the war," suggested Bobby Zane. "Like a blitzkrieg or something.
Finny: Blitzkrieg.
Gene Forrester: We could figure out some kind of blitzkrieg baseball.
Bobby Zane: We'll call it blitzkrieg ball.
Finny: Or just blitzball. Yes, blitzball.
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| 15 | The Devon School Contact Sport Award | Other | Recognition | Awards |
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The Devon School Contact Sport Award
The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool's paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor. It was true that he had many already - the Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football Trophy for having brought the most Christian sportsmanship to the game during the 1941-1942 season, the Margaret Duke Bonaventura ribbon and prize for the student who conducted himself at hockey most like the way her son had done, the Devon School Contact Sport Award, Presented Each Year to That Student Who in the Opinion of the Athletic Advisors Excels His Fellows in the Sportsmanlike Performance of Any Game Involving Bodily Contact.
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| 16 | The Margaret Duke Bonaventura Ribbon | Other | Recognition | Awards |
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The Margaret Duke Bonaventura Ribbon
The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool's paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor. It was true that he had many already - the Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football Trophy for having brought the most Christian sportsmanship to the game during the 1941-1942 season, the Margaret Duke Bonaventura ribbon and prize for the student who conducted himself at hockey most like the way her son had done, the Devon School Contact Sport Award, Presented Each Year to That Student Who in the Opinion of the Athletic Advisors Excels His Fellows in the Sportsmanlike Performance of Any Game Involving Bodily Contact.
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| 17 | The Ne Plus Ultra Scholastic Achievement... | Other | Recognition | Awards |
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The Ne Plus Ultra Scholastic Achievement Citation
The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool's paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor. It was true that he had many already - the Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football Trophy for having brought the most Christian sportsmanship to the game during the 1941-1942 season, the Margaret Duke Bonaventura ribbon and prize for the student who conducted himself at hockey most like the way her son had done, the Devon School Contact Sport Award, Presented Each Year to That Student Who in the Opinion of the Athletic Advisors Excels His Fellows in the Sportsmanlike Performance of Any Game Involving Bodily Contact.
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| 19 | The Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football ... | Other | Recognition | Awards |
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The Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football Trophy
The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool's paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor. It was true that he had many already - the Winslow Galbraith Memorial Football Trophy for having brought the most Christian sportsmanship to the game during the 1941-1942 season, the Margaret Duke Bonaventura ribbon and prize for the student who conducted himself at hockey most like the way her son had done, the Devon School Contact Sport Award, Presented Each Year to That Student Who in the Opinion of the Athletic Advisors Excels His Fellows in the Sportsmanlike Performance of Any Game Involving Bodily Contact.
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