"Haynes got in bad on the last two days of general review.

Chemistry and Spanish verbs threw him.

So he was ordered up for a writ (written examination) in both subjects.

He fessed frozen on both of them.
He applied for a new examination in a fortnight, but the fact that Haynes was already a turnback went against him." "He's `found,' eh ?" questioned Brayton, smiling gleefully.
"Dropped," nodded Pierson.
"Fired!" added Greg, with a look of satisfaction.

"There's no getting around the truth of the old superstition, fellows!" The "old superstition" to which Holmes referred is one intensely believed in the cadet corps.