I borrowed the money and paid to enter the senior class of a "cramming joint" or academy.

I was scheduled to graduate right into the university at the end of four months, thus saving two years.
And how I did cram! I had two years' new work to do in a third of a year.
For five weeks I crammed, until simultaneous quadratic equations and chemical formulas fairly oozed from my ears.

And then the master of the academy took me aside.

He was very sorry, but he was compelled to give me back my tuition fee and to ask me to leave the school.

It wasn't a matter of scholarship.