CHAPTER IV
A BOY IN A WHEEL CHAIR
To reach the assembly hall, which occupied the
entire first floor rear section of East Hall,
just as the dining hall occupied the same location
on the other side, Clif had to go the length of
Middle Hall, pass into the wider corridor of the newer
building beyond, turn left and follow the main corridor
to the staircase. East Hall, save for a dozen rooms
on the third floor, was devoted principally to the use
of the Junior School, composed of boys between the
ages of eleven and fourteen. Mr. Clendenin, known
as "Wim" because of his invariable custom of signing
himself "Wm. Clendenin," was at the head. The
Juniors had their own parlor, recreation room, library,
reading room, game room and office on the ground
floor. They ate, however, in the dining hall in West
and shared the class rooms in Middle with the older
students. Middle, once containing all there was of the
school, had long since been remodeled into class rooms
only.
Doctor Wyndham, the Principal, occupied a suite of three rooms and bath on the second floor of East Hall. Other suites, smaller, similar to Mr. McKnight's, were
