If it is I fear that the Board of Education may take some steps that will result in making athletics less of a feature among our young men.

I hope that it is not necessary to add anything to this plain appeal to your good judgment, young gentlemen." It _wasn't_.

Dr.Thornton was a man of so few and direct words that the boys gathered on the male side of the big assembly room looked around at each other in plain dismay.
"That miserable old Board of Education is equal to shutting down on us right in the middle of the season," whispered Frank Thompson to Dent, who sat next him.
"You know the answer ?" Dent whispered back.
"What ?" "Give the board no excuse for any such action.

Keep up to the academ.

grind." "But how do that and train-----" A general buzz was going around on the boys' side of the room.
Several of the girls, too, were whispering in some excitement, for most of the girls were enthusiastic "fans" at all of the High School games.
Whispering, provided it was "necessary" and did not disturb others, was not against the rules.