"We're in a blue funk over the way recitations are going." "Oh, buck up, kiddies!" called Freeman cheerily, as he crossed the floor.

"Youngsters always get in the doldrums at the beginning of the year." "You're a first classman.

When you were in the third class did you have all the studies that we have now ?" "Every one of them, sir," affirmed Midshipman Freeman gravely, though there was a twinkle in his eyes.
"And did you come through the course easily ?" asked Page.
"Not easily," admitted the first classman.

"There isn't anything at Annapolis that is easy, except the dancing.

In fact, during the first two months very few of our class came along like anything at all.