Many members were not interested in basketball, except to look on.

Girls who were overstudious, and not physically strong, could not at any rate play on the team, and therefore they seldom attended such meetings.

Jessica Bright was one of these, nevertheless, she followed her two friends, who had always been foremost in athletics at the Central Grammar School.
The election of a captain was the first business of the meeting.

That over, the captain, after due and serious consultation with a friendly cabinet, chose the players and their substitutes.
Undoubtedly Grace Harlowe had the coolest head in the class, and was the most to be relied upon at critical moments; yet Miriam Nesbit exerted a strange influence over her followers, who were almost her slaves.

She was the richest of all the girls and wore the costliest clothes.