two o'clock in the morning
Read the last stanza , will you , Pudge ? '' So Pudge read the last stanza , and then the boys got into an argument over the possible truth of the thesis of the poem . Freddy finally brought them back to the task in hand with his plaintive plea , `` We 've got ta get going . '' It was two o'clock in the morning when the seminar broke up , Hugh admitting to Carl after their visitors departed that he had not only learned a lot but that he had enjoyed the evening heartily . The college grew quieter and quieter as the day for the examinations approached . There were seminars on everything , even on the best way to prepare cribs . Certain students with low grades and less honor would somehow gravitate together and discuss plans for `` foxing the profs. '' Opinions differed .