
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover

as George 'Tough' McCarty

as 'Tennessee' Shad

as Sr. Samuel H. Stover

as Maude Stover

as Mr. Hopkins

as Joshua Montgomery Smead

as "Butsey" White

as Connie Brown

as Johnny

as Mr. Conover

as Al

as Edward "Puffy" Ellis

as Dolly Travers

as Mrs. Cameron

as Student

as Student

as Sambo

as Cheyenne Baxter

as Coffee Colored Angel

as White Mountain Canary

as Poler Beekstein

as Clara 'Tootsie' Stover (uncredited)