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Title: The Seven-Branched Candlestick
The Schooldays of Young American Jew

Author: Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel

Release Date: September 22, 2010 [eBook #33793]

Language: English

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THE SEVEN-BRANCHED CANDLESTICK

The Schooldays of Young American Jew

by

GILBERT W. GABRIEL

New York
Bloch Publishing Company, Inc.
"The Jewish Book Concern"
1925

Copyright, 1917
Bloch Publishing Company

CONTENTS

I. BY WAY OF PROLOGUE 5

II. IN THE BEGINNING 16

III. FRIDAY NIGHT 25

IV. THE BOY AND THE SCHOOL 34

V. THE MILITARY ACADEMY 42

VI. MY STEERFORTH 51

VII. FRESHMAN YEAR 61

VIII. WITHIN THE GATES 70

IX. MY AUNT AND I 79

X. THE RULES OF THE GAME 88

XI. A MAN'S WORK 98

XII. THE HEART OF JUDEA 107

XIII. CHILD AND PARENT 116

XIV. AN UNGRATEFUL NEPHEW 125

XV. COLLEGE LIFE 135

XVI. THE HUN'S INVASION 144

XVII. MANY IMPULSES 154

XVIII. I STAND--BUT NOT ASIDE 163

XIX. "BATTLE ROYAL" 172

XX. THE CANDLES ARE LIGHTED 181

The Seven-Branched Candlestick

I

BY WAY OF PROLOGUE

"Years of Plenty" was the name an Englishman recently gave to a book of
his school days. My own years of secondary school and college were
different fr