In a preblog world it is unlikely that Jack's story would have spread much further than his family and circle of friends. However, Jack's blog provided other people a window into his life...

2 No more for us yon tuneful bell shall ring for morning prayers, / No more to long Biennial we’ll mount you attic stairs; / Our recitations all are passed—Alumnuses you know, / We’ll swell the praises long and loud of Alma Mater O— / Oh! Alma Mater O, &c.

Yet just down the hall, resembling a sort of high-rise oasis amid this construction, is the carpeted and cubicled office of Adventure Publishing, where the employees are busy putting out a trade magazine that covers the toy industry.

At once he said, ‘If you're not careful, Matty dear, you'll become a proper little nigger-lover.’