The coldness of public places

Abstract

New York's Stuyvesant High School ~? known, justly, as one of the best secondary schools for boys in the country. In the fifteen years since Frank Conroy attended the school, its reputation--as based on the number of students it annually places in "good'colleges--has continued to grow. To many, therefore, AI~: Conroy's memories of the school will seem so distorted as to be offensive, or so particular as to be irrelevant. But to others, his account may catch an invaluable part of the truth of what is meant by going to school in the city.