- Hally sits at the table to study and eat the lunch that Sam's served.
- Sam looks at a doodle of Hally's teacher, Mr. Prentice, and Hally tells him he got six swats for drawing it.
- Sam tells him about what it's like to be beaten by the police in jail. Hally doesn't dig the story.
- Hally says he believes that social reformers will change the world so that people won't treat each other so badly in the future. Sam isn't so sure.
- Hally's got some hope in progress, but admits that sometimes the world seems like a pretty terrible place.
- Sam picks up Hally's math book and starts to read, with some help from Hally on the more technical words, like "magnitude."
- Hally announces that he'll probably fail math, but that it doesn't matter because "examination results don't measure intelligence."
- Sam kids Hally that he always says that whenever he's failed an exam.
- The guys get into a discussion over which historical figures are men "of magnitude," who made a real difference in the world.
- Sam suggests Napoleon, but Hally disagrees because even though Napoleon was historically significant, he wasn't a social reformer like his own hero, Charles Darwin.
- Sam doesn't think that knowing the theory of evolution really benefits mankind. Hally's shocked that Sam doesn't appreciate how Darwin revolutionized science.
- Sam still doesn't buy it, and says that Abraham Lincoln is a real man of magnitude.
- Hally says he figures Sam would've said something like that.
- He tells Sam he shouldn't be so stuck on Abraham Lincoln, since he's never been a slave or anything like that.
- Really?
- They go through a list of important people, including Tolstoy and Jesus Christ, all the while Hally being the little pretentious scholar.
- Sam finally suggests Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. Hally agrees that this is a real man of magnitude.
- Sam and Hally reminisce on their five years studying together, Sam learning from Hally as he does his homework every night.
- Sam remembers the first map Hally made of South Africa. Hally had proudly pointed out all the regions and their products.
- Hally's amazed at Sam's memory. Sam says that Hally started passing his exams because he was trying to be better than him at geography, and they have a laugh.