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Ramsey Milholland

CHAPTER XIX
15/18

"I guess there must be a big crowd of 'em down there.

One of our students enlisted to-day, and they're givin' him a send-off.

Listen to 'em, how they _do_ cheer.

He's the first one to go." She went back to her room, shivering, and spent the next day in bed with an aching head.

She rose in the evening, however--a handbill had been slid under her door at five o'clock, calling a "Mass Meeting" of the university at eight, and she felt it her duty to go; but when she got to the great hall she found a seat in the dimmest corner, farthest from the rostrum.
The president of the university addressed the tumultuous many hundreds before him, for tumultuous they were until he quieted them.


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