Durville was one of the few who had never liked Dick well.

Durville had always been one of the "wild" ones, and Prescott's ideas of soldierly duty had grated a good deal on Durville's own beliefs.
"The class won't take severe action, anyway," hinted Tupper.
"We might vote to give Prescott a week's 'silence,' but any permanent 'cut' would be out of the question.

The man has done too many things to make himself popular." "Besides," chimed in Brown, "look at the place Prescott holds on the Army football eleven.

Why he---and Holmes, too, of course---were the pair who saved us from the Navy last November.
And we rely upon that pair to a tremendous extent for the successes we expect this coming fall." Jordan's jaw dropped.

In the heat of his anger he had lost sight of the football situation.