Between ten and eleven on three days a week Steve put in an hour of study in the room.

On other days he managed to snatch two half-hour periods in the library between recitations.

At six he was almost invariably awaiting the opening of the doors for dinner, and well before seven he was at his table again.

Usually he studied until nine, although now and then he closed his books at half-past eight and followed Tom to Number 17 Torrence.

Roy called him the Prize Grind and interestedly inquired what scholarship he was trying for.