"How are you coming on, general ?" "I'd give a good deal to be able to ask a first class man how to solve the fourth problem on to-morrow's list," groaned Greg.
"I'd show you," sighed Dick, "only I'm afraid I might lead you into an ambush where you'd get scalped by the instructor." In each class, and in every subject of study, the young men are divided, for recitation purposes, into sections of eight or ten men.
In each study the section to which the young man belongs is determined by his relative standing in that study.

The "banner" section is made up of the cadets who stand highest in the class in that particular study.

At the end of every week the markings of each cadet in every one of his studies is posted, and the sections are rearranged, if need be.

The men in the lowest section of all in a given study are styled the "goats." The members of the "goat" section, in math.

for instance, are men who feel rather certain that they will presently be "found" and dropped from the cadet corps.
However, at the beginning of a year a man may fall into the "goats," and then later, may pull up so that he reaches a higher section and goes on with better standing.