In high school athletics the members of Dick & Co.

won a statewide reputation, as to-day members of winning high school athletic teams are bound to do.

It was during their high school days that Dick & Co.

determined on their professions through life.
Dick Prescott and Greg Holmes both secured competitive appointments to the United States Military Academy, and their further doings are set forth in the "_West Point Series_." Dave Darrin and Dalzell, with a burning desire for naval life, obtained appointments to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

What befell them is fully told in the "_Annapolis Series_." As for Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, while still in high school they became seized with a strong desire for careers as civil engineers.