You get a smattering of engineering work at West Point, don't you ?" "We've been at math.

and drawing, so far," Dick explained.

"That all leads up to the engineering instruction that we shall have to take up in September." "Oh, I dare say you'll get a very fair smattering of engineering," assented Tom.

"It's nothing like the real practice that we get, though, out in the field with the survey and construction parties.
I guess you fellows, after your grind in the High School, found West Point math.

pretty easy, didn't you ?" Dick laughed merrily before he answered.
"Tom, the math.