human
Just a minute, fellows! called Bunny, as the other Scouts straggled toward the door of the clubhouse, after Horace Hibbs had gone.
gpt
I want to tell you something. This morning I spoke to Professor Leland about having a meeting of the whole school, to get ourselves organized and to elect officers. The school, you see, is a good deal like a troop of Boy Scouts; there must be a leader over everybody, and each branch, like each patrol, must have its leader, too. I mean that a student president is to be elected, and a football manager, and somebody to head the athletic association, and--and I don't know what else.
human
When will the meeting be?
gpt
Professor Leland says it will be held late this afternoon, just before our first football practice. Now, the school may feel like electing some of us to offices--
human
Of course, agreed Specs complacently.
gpt
Will there be enough offices for all of us, Bunny?
human
That's just what I wanted to talk about, the patrol leader answered soberly.
gpt
We're organized, of course, and we're known by most of the students, and I think we're pretty well liked. If two or three of us are elected, that will be fine. But we mustn't use our--our power to run things. We mustn't try for all the offices. There are lots of other bully fellows in school, and we want the best man elected to each office, whether he's a Black Eagle or not.
human
H'm! said Specs gloomily.
gpt
That won't be the way Buck Claxton and his gang will look at it. They'll be out to gobble everything they can get. I'll bet they have it all figured out already.
human
Buck and his gang