This is a story about life in a boys' school, St Timothy's. The school is in America and depicts the lives of the boys in all their struggles, triumphs and adolescent lives. The hero of the story according to the title is Harry Harding, but another boy, Rupert Ormsby, is a much 'nicer' boy who could be seen as the real hero.

Excerpt from Harding of St. Timothy's HE master in charge of the great silent schoolroom touched a bell. Instantly the Silence was broken with a variety of sounds. There was an outburst of confused Speech, a scraping of chairs and feet on the wooden floor, a slamming together of books, and a banging of desk-lids. For the touching of the bell signified that the last study hour of this September afternoon was ended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.