[Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookDave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis CHAPTER XIII 11/12
I won't come around before release.
By the time a fellow reaches the first class, if he's going to graduate anyway, he doesn't have to study as hard as a youngster does.
The man who reaches the first class has had all the habits of true study ground into him." Darrin, Dalzell, Farley and Page were all in different sections in mathematics.
When they recited, next day, it so happened that each was the man to have the "sticky fly paper" problem assigned to him by the instructor.
Each of the quartette received a full "4" for the day's marking. "Did you have any assistance with this problem, Mr.Darrin ?" asked Dave's instructor. "Yes, sir; a member of the first class tried to make it plain to me last night." "He appears to have succeeded," remarked the instructor dryly. There was, however, no discredit attached to having received proper assistance before coming into section. True to his promise Freeman dropped in every fourth or fifth evening, to see if he could be of any help to the four youngsters.
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