Stub: A College Romance (first edition)

By: Margueritte Harmon Bro

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Synopsis: This story is about STUB, christened Svend Wingate Larson--from his arrival at Quilby College from Wingate, Wisconsin, "on his own" for the first time to the end of his first year, during which he gains a new understanding of himself and the world around him. and Stubs roommates: ALDWIN ALASTAIR from Nebraska, with a single track interest in botany; JIM THOMAS, who called the sea home and couldn't see much sense in time spent on land, even in college; SAMMY GOLDSTEIN from New York, gifted, brilliant, and "proudly, eternally Jewish." and Stub's girl friends: CONCHITA ROSITA GOMEZ, who started the year for Stub on a high note when he fell disastrously head over heels in love for the first time; HANNAH, big, blond, generous, whose father was a Dutch copper king, and whose friendships were international; BONNIE, who was Jim's girl but who taught Stub and his friends a grief which was also grandeur; LETA LANE from Stub's home town, little, blond, and wistful, torn between two careers, science and ballet. From a kaleidoscope of friendships, bull sessions, dates, family problems, clubs, professors, adjustments, which form the pattern of every American co-educational college today, Margueritte Bro, the author of SARAH, has woven another thought-provoking novel for young people, as varied and interesting as young people themselves--a perfect introduction to college years.