As corporals these members of the
yearling class get their first direct experience in military
command.
Later in the afternoon all candidates were notified that academic
examinations would begin at eight o'clock the next morning in the
Academic Building.
And now the candidates began to shiver! "Bad" as the start had
been, they hoped, to a man, that they would pass these academic
examinations. To fail meant to return home, the dream of being a
cadet shattered!
"Ugh!" muttered Greg, rubbing his hands in quarters. "Br-r-r! Dick,
I'm afraid I'm scared cold!"
Prescott smiled, but he, too, was worried over the coming
mysteries of the academic examinations, which he had heard were
uncommonly [Transcriber's note: word missing].
CHAPTER III
THE "LUCKY" ONES TAKE UP THE NEW LIFE
Candidate Prescott did not take the best examination by
any means, but he got through without discredit in any branch.
A number of these candidates had spent the last year or so at some
"prep." school that made a specialty of preparing young men for
West Point and Annapolis.
Greg did fairly in English, quite well in history, geography and
arithmetic; in algebra, through sheer nervousness, young Holmes
barely escaped going short.
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