Yesterday morning, a student in the junior class enlisted as a private in the United States Regular Army.

Far be it from me to deplore his course in so doing; he spoke to me about it, and in such a way that I felt I had no right to dissuade him.

I told him that it would be preferable for college men to wait until they could go as officers, and, aside from the fact of a greater prestige, I urged that men of education could perhaps be more useful in that capacity.

He replied that if he were useful enough as a private a commission might in time come his way, and, as I say, I did not feel at liberty to attempt dissuasion.

He left to join a regiment to which he had been assigned, and many of you were at the station to bid him farewell.
"But enthusiasm may be too contagious; even a great and inspiring motive may work for harm, and the university must not become a desert.