"That is, if we get by the doctors--and then the beastly academic grind." Now, to keep his mind occupied, Dick Prescott fell to observing, covertly, the other candidates.
These were of all sorts and sizes.

They represented all parts of the United States and every walk in social life.

Out of the group were two or three who, judging by their clothing, might have been sons of washerwomen.

There were other youngsters whose general appearance and bearing seemed to proclaim that they came from homes of wealth.

But the majority of the young men appeared to have come from the same walk in life as did Dick and Greg.
Our two young friends were by no means the most smartly nor the most correctly attired young men there.