I think it likely that both forms of punishment will be administered, but I shall not announce my decision to-day.
It will come later.

The young men are dismissed." Clang! Dismay would have been a mild name for what the fellows felt when they found themselves outside the building.

Of the principal, in a rage they were little afraid.

But when the principal controlled his temper he was a man in authority and of dangerous power.
After his own meal, and some scowling reflection, Mr.Cantwell set out to find his friend and backer in the Board of Education, Mr.Gadsby.

That custodian of local education heard Mr.Cantwell through, after which he replied: "Er---um----ah---my dear Cantwell, you can't very well prohibit the game, or talk of withholding diplomas from the young men of the graduating class.