"They're not college boys," Dick declared quietly. "I don't know
where they came from, but certainly none of them have ever been
through as much as a year in any real college."

"They're about as frisky as some college boys," retorted Danny
Grin.

"College boys may be full of mischief, at times," Dick returned,
"but at least they know how to behave well when they should do
so. College men never think it funny to be rude with women, for
instance. College men are usually the sons of well-bred parents,
and they also acquire additional finish at college. Moreover,
the English language is one of the subjects taught in colleges.
These cheeky rah-rah boys were very slip-shod in their speech.
I don't know who these fellows are, but they're not real college
men."

"Say, it must be nice," remarked Hazelton, "to be able to travel
about the country, stopping at such nice hotels. Laura and her
friends manage to have pretty good times."

"Their families are all better off than ours, in a worldly sense,"
Dick replied. "When you stop to think of it, there are far more
girls than boys in our good old high school who come from comfortable
homes. Perhaps two dozen of our high school fellows come from
homes of considerable wealth. The rest of us don't. More than
half of the Gridley High School girls come from families where
servants are kept. I wonder if it is that way, generally, in
the United States?"