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He and Morton had prepared for college with Yale in view. But Morton had flunked his entrance examinations at Yale and afterward succeeded in passing the Cornell tests. House had gone to Cornell to be with his friend, an early indication of a capacity for self-effacement, for attachment to the nearest great man at hand who could take him behind the scenes.
He isn't really my uncle, but I call him that; he won't rage. He'll just whistle. People of his age have to whistle, to show they're alive. I have reason to believe," the cub said, "that he 'whistled' when I flunked in my mid-years. Well, I felt sorry, myself on his account," Maurice said, with the serious and amiable condescension of youth. "I hated to jar him. But gosh!
Open it, Patty, and let's see what you've flunked." "Dear me!" said Patty, "I thought that was a habit I'd outgrown freshman year." They crowded around and read the note over her shoulder. Patty had no secrets. THE OBSERVATORY, January 20. Miss Patty Wyatt.
"But I thought it was going so splendidly," she faltered, in a half-stifled voice. "So it was at the first." "Then what ailed it, at the last, do you suppose?" Billy was holding her breath till he should answer. The man got to his feet. "Billy, don't don't ask me," he begged. "Please don't let's talk of it any more. It can't do any good! I just flunked that's all. My hand failed me.
"You're not crying because you've flunked. You're crying because you've caught cold, and you're tired and wet and hungry. You take those wet clothes off this minute and get into a warm bath-robe, and I'll get you some dinner." "I don't want any dinner," wailed Olivia, and she showed signs of turning back to the pillows again.
You never would accept anything from me." "Yes, I did. I have let you go to the entire expense of furnishing this room, though I have an equal share in it." "Oh, that's nothing! You pay me in helping me through my lessons when I am behind. If you hadn't read my Horace to me the other day I should have flunked as sure as can be." "It would be better for you to get your own lesson, Walter."
Malicious spirits averred that Dickie Johnson had flunked out of agricultural school, had an obscure European diploma, and that his fame as a professor at Creighton University was based on the gleaming granite and stainless steel building dedicated to research in agronomy which bore the legend "Johnson Foundation" over the entrance.
"I'm going -I'm not going to wait another minute -all the other fellows are going -my grandfather fought through the Civil War -it's me for the submarine fleet -I'm off this very " But before he could ramble any farther Ted took a hand in the oratory. "What's the matter, chum? Flunked in anything, or been out to see a new movie show, have you?"
But look at me. I'll be lucky if I squeak through at all. Of course I've never really flunked, but I've been so on the ragged edge of going under so many times that it's no fun." "Cheer up! You'll get through. Why, man alive, you've got to. Now come on and get at this Latin and afterward we'll pitch into the plum-cake." "What do you say we pitch into the cake first?" "No, sir.
"She flunked twice in French and was impudent to Madame," whispered Bobby, who knew all the school gossip. "Mrs. Eustice canceled her Edentown permit." Ada frankly scowled at the newcomers.
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