Greg Holmes, Dave Darrin, Dan Dalzell and Tom and Harry had been the other members of that famous sextette of schoolboy athletes.
After reading of the doings of Dick & Co.

in the "_Grammar School Boys Series_," our readers again followed them, through the events recorded in the four volumes of the "_High School Boys Series_".

Here their really brilliant work Boys Series athletes was stirringly chronicled, as along with scores of non-athletic adventures that befell them.
At the close of the high school course Dick Prescott and Greg Holmes secured appointments as cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

All that befell them there is duly set forth in the "_West Point Series_." Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell were fortunate enough to secure appointments as midshipmen in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and their doings there are set forth in the "_Annapolis Series_." Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, on the other hand, had felt no call to military glory.

For their work in life they longed to become part of the great constructive force wielded by modern civil engineers.