midnight
Of course , if I can pass -- '' But there Blair stopped and sighed dolefully . And Joel echoed the sigh . The last few days before the event of the term came , and found the first eleven in something approaching their old form . Blair continued to burn the midnight oil and consume page after page of Greek and mathematics and German , which , as he confided despondently to Digbee , he promptly forgot the next moment . Remsen made up a certain amount of lost sleep , and Whipple gained the confidence of the team . Joel studied hard , and refound his old interest in lessons , and dreamed nightly of the Goodwin scholarship . West , too , `` put in some hard licks , '' as he phrased it , and found himself climbing slowly up in the class scale .