Fielding's friend, Ralph Allen, was the academy figure of this character.

" "Just what they were," and Frank went on to explain how it came there was a second vacation for the academy boys of Centerville, and also the unfortunate fact of Andy, known among his chums as "Butch" for some unexplained reason, having determined to take an outing in the same region at the identical time they had arranged to come.

The "green" was large and well-kept, and looked like the best kind of a ball-ground; but there was nothing wonderful about the academy building, except that it evidently had in it room enough for a great many boys.

" Dick's tongue always began to work better, the moment he mentioned the academy-principal.

The proprietors of the academy supposing, in the simplicity of their hearts, that in a free country they might use their property in any manner not forbidden by law, proceeded to open their school, and in the ensuing spring had twenty-eight white, and fourteen colored scholars.

Academy award; 1950 ed.

In his school days at Wilbraham Academy, he organized an original critics' club, started the first academy paper, organized the original alumni association.

Then, your sealer hasn't half as much need of your academy-sort of navigation, as another man.

" "What are they, then?" "Oh, the Helots of the professionhewers of wood engravings, and drawers of water-colors, with a sprinkling of daguerreotypists, and academy students.

The last days of the academy term were close at hand, and the air was full of graduation exercises and white muslin and ribbon sashes.

So far as scholarship was concerned they were often outstripped by their country neighbors, but the Careys had seen so much of the world that they had a great deal of general culture, and the academy atmosphere was affected by it.

The figure of the Admiral is strong, well carried, firm, and his bearing that of gravity and determination, but no pose for the sake of show, no pomp and circumstance, just the Academy training showing in his attitudethe abiding, unconscious grace that is imparted in the schools of Annapolis and West Pointnow rivaled by other schools in "setting up."

" Ham Morris had been exchanging remarkable winks with Miranda and Samantha, and now gravely suggested, "Maybe the academy authorities will refuse to take him.

" The Widow Berry, who kept academy boarders, sent in a luscious mince pie now and then, and Mrs. Popham and Mrs. Harmon brought dried apples or pumpkins, winter beets and Baldwin apples.

Alas, how many of those academy classmates, each of whom was then the soul of honor and the heart of truth, drowned their intellects in the flowing bowl.

Even to the youth in the straw hat it was tiresome work, although not new to him, and after practice was over, instead of joining in the little stream that eddied back to the academy grounds, he struck off to where a long straggling row of cedars and firs marked the course of the river.

It occurred to me that a diversion to old times would awaken her again to a sense of the present, and I tried to draw her back to the academy life by talking of it as if nothing had happened.