Doubtless they would have averaged up about the same.

But Claflin liked to be considered "select" and so I might as well accord her the distinction.

Claflin had been educating the youth of New York and surrounding states for almost a hundred years, and nowadays fathers applied for admission for their boys about as soon as the boys were born.

The school was in that respect like a club with a long waiting list.

If a boy wasn't "entered" by the time he was five or six years old at the latest, he stood small chance of getting in when the time came.
Claflin had won from Brimfield three years on end, or ever since they had been playing together.