"Your remark, as you made it, sounds ungrateful.

It is a delight to be a High School student.

There are no really dark sides to the life." "But some sides are much brighter than others," Dick insisted.
"I like study, and am glad I have a chance to go further in it than most young people get.

Yet these class dances give us something that algebra, or chemistry, or geometry can't supply us." "This is the brightest spot of the year," put in Tom Reade, in a low voice.

"It must be the brightness of the girls' eyes that fill this part of the room with so much radiance." "Bravo!" laughed Laura and Belle together.
"Have you been quiet the last fifteen minutes on purpose to think that up ?" Dave asked enviously.
"Tom can say lots of nicer things than that," spoke up Bessie Trenholm, half shyly.
"Oh, can he ?" demanded Harry Hazelton.