Monday noon
They had not attended the lectures on the `` Greek bucks . '' Indeed , profiting by their privilege of voluntary recitations , they had dropped in but seldom on Philosophy 4 . These blithe grasshoppers had danced and sung away the precious storing season , and now that the bleak hour of examinations was upon them , their waked-up hearts had felt aghast at the sudden vision of their ignorance . It was on a Monday noon that this feeling came fully upon them , as they read over the names of the philosophers . Thursday was the day of the examination . `` Who 's Anaxagoras ? '' Billy had inquired of Bertie .