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Updated: July 16, 2025
Especially was this true of the fourth class men in the "wooden" or lowest sections. Most of these men knew that, if they succeeded in staying on at all, it would be by a very small margin indeed. Even the men in the "savvy sections," with the highest marks of their class, were eager to come out as well as possible in the dreaded semi-ans.
The semi-ans. over, and the results posted on the bulletin board in the Academic Building, it was discovered that Cadet Richard Prescott now stood number twenty-four in his class -a rank never heretofore won by him. Cadet Jordan was so furious that his face was ghastly white when he made the discovery. "Will nothing ever drive that living disgrace Prescott out of the corps?"
"I never imagined the fellow could stick as long as he has," Jordan told himself disconsolately. One night Anstey, just before the semi-ans., took a chance. Usually the Virginian was careful in matters of discipline. But now he invited a dozen members of his class to his room to discuss an "important matter." "Going?" asked Durville of Jordan. "I'm not invited, Durry," replied the other.
The fates be thanked that we're allowed until the semi-ans to pick up. But the question is, are we ever going to pick up? As I look through my books it seems to me that every succeeding lesson is twice as hard as the one before it." "Other men have gone through, every year." "And still other men have been dropped every year," Dalzell dolefully reminded him.
By the time that semi-ans came around nearly all of us managed to pull through. But what seems to be the worst grind of all the real blue paint?" "Calculus!" cried the four youngsters in unison. "Why, once you begin to see daylight in calculus it's just as easy as taking a nap," declared the first classman. "At present it seems more like suffering from delirium," sighed Dave.
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