“Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished alumni, and students … This year, 1959, marks the hundreth year that Welton Academy has been in existence.

“The light of knowledge shall be passed from old to young,” Headmaster Nolan intoned solemnly, as each boy lit the candle of the student sitting next to him. Slowly, he bent forward, lighting the candle of the first student on the aisle.

The gentleman with the candle walked to the front of the audience where the youngest students sat holding unlit candles. The bagpiper marched in place at the corner of the dais, and the four banner carriers, lowering their flags that read, “Tradition,” “Honor,” “Discipline,” and “Excellence,” quietly took seats with the audience. “The light of knowledge.” The audience applauded politely as the older gentleman stepped slowly forward with the candle. “Ladies and gentlemen … boys …” he said dramatically, pointing toward the man with the candle. Headmaster Gale Nolan, a husky man in his early sixties, stood at the podium watching expectantly as the procession concluded. The four boys who carried banners marched solemnly to the dais, followed slowly by the elderly men, the last of whom proudly carried the lighted candle. They heard the reverberations of the bagpipes as a short, elderly man swathed in flowing robes lit a candle and led a procession of students carrying banners, robed teachers, and alumnae down a long slate hallway into the venerable chapel. “‘Not a cynic, my boy,’ McAllister said knowingly.CONTENTS Cover Title Page Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 About the Author Copyright CHAPTER 1 Inside the stone chapel of Welton Academy, a private school nestled in the remote hills of Vermont, more than three hundred boys, all wearing the academy blazer, sat on either side of the long aisle, surrounded by proud-faced parents, and waited. The boys excitedly look to the challenge and begin to view their education, their relationships and their lives differently. Keating challenges the boys to “suck the marrow out of life”, a concept their conservative, single-minded school has never taught before. Without spoilers, Dead Poets Society is about a group of boys at Welton Academy and the way their lives get significantly more interesting when their new English professor, Mr.

Kleinbaum, based on the motion picture written by Tom Schulman This one is unique in that the book is based on the movie rather than the usual – movie being based on book.īy N.H. Uncertain whether I’d seen the movie, I picked up book 39 at a Library Used Book Sale, read it quickly and watched the movie the night I finished the book.

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