"Talk about gall! What has he ever done for the school?
Nothing." "He won't get the office," said Jack.
"Is Bart going to have a walkover ?" asked Pepper.
"Hardly.

Both Dave Kearney and Harry Blossom will run against him, and so will Bob Grenwood, and they all have their friends." "Well, let the best fellows win, say I!" cried Andy, and then he ran off, to do some fancy "stunts" in the gymnasium.
The excitement attending the disappearance of Bart Conners's stickpin and Dan Baxter's money had somewhat subsided, and now the cadets could think of nothing but the coming election.
"How many cadets are there to vote ?" asked Pepper, as he and Jack walked away to the river to skate.
"Eighty-three." "Then it will take forty-two votes to elect anybody." "That's it." "Well, I hope Bart gets the forty-two votes." "I have been doing a little figuring, and I think he can count on at least thirty-one votes.

But I am not so sure of the other eleven." The election of officers was made the occasion of a holiday at Putnam Hall.

Immediately after breakfast, the battalion was formed and marched around the campus and then to the gymnasium.

Here Captain Putnam made a little speech, in which he announced that the balloting for a major would be immediately followed by the balloting for one captain and then the other, and then for the lieutenants.
"It is now nine-thirty," concluded Captain Putnam.