Of course, viewed from the standpoint of perfect hockey, Arnold’s exploit was nothing to cheer for. When a wing player has to skate all over the shop and finally hook the puck in from back of goal he naturally suggests to the unbiased mind that there was a lamentable absence of team-play; which there was. Captain Crowell knew better than to praise that performance. Instead, he told Arnold that it was good skating, blamed himself for letting the cover point upset him and waded into Fanning for being out of position. But the audience liked it immensely and for some days Arnold’s exploit was the subject of enthusiastic praise. I forgot to say that the score of the Yardley-Greenburg High game was 16 to 3. Not that it matters greatly, however. You are not to suppose that Toby spent all his time and thought on the enticing game of hockey. On the contrary, Toby was putting in some good licks at studying about this time. For one thing, he felt in honor bound to vindicate the faculty’s selection of T. Tucker as a recipient of a Ripley Scholarship, and for another thing mid-year examinations were on. “Mid-years” are serious things, and it behooves a chap to buckle down and get himself up on his studies, and especially those studies which, all during the Fall Term, he has sort of squeezed through on. So Toby worked hard and burned much midnight oil――only it happened to be gas――and did excellently well in everything save Latin and not so very badly in that. Poor Homer Wilkins came several croppers and for a time anticipated severing his connection with the school. But he managed by dint of many solemn promises and extraordinary application to weather the storm. Arnold, too, had his troubles, but they were not serious. Only two members of the first hockey team found themselves in hot water, Henry and Dunphy, and these were barred from playing until they had removed their conditions. There was said to be some doubt about Dunphy’s return to the team that season, but Henry’s absence from the ice was believed to be a matter of only a fortnight. Orson Crowell accepted the matter philosophically. After all, things might have been worse. He recalled one occasion, in his third class year, when exactly six of a hockey squad of fifteen had been put on probation after mid-years. Remembering that, he concluded that the temporary loss of Henry and the possibly final loss of Dunphy were not worth worrying about. Frank Lamson took Henry’s place at the net and tried very hard to fill Henry’s shoes. He never succeeded, however, even though, the week after the Greenburg game, an old-boy and former hockey captain named Loring, patriotically responded to the call for aid and put in five days of coaching, paying a great deal of attention to the goal-tend. But even Alfred Loring could not make a perfect net-man of Frank Lamson, although Frank did improve quite perceptibly, and it was thought advisable to draw on the second team for a