She got terribly excited, they say, but kept right on, anyway.

She said war was murder and there couldn't be any other way to look at it; and she'd heard there was already talk in the university of students thinking about enlisting, and whoever did such a thing was virtually enlisting to return murder for murder.

Then Joe Stansbury asked her if she meant that she'd feel toward any student that enlisted the way she would toward a murderer, and she said, yes, she'd have a horror of any student that enlisted.
"Well, that broke up the class; Joe turned from her to the platform and told old Burney that he was responsible for allowing such talk in his lecture-room, and Joe said so far as _he_ was concerned, he resigned from Burney's classes right there.

That started it, and practically the whole class got up and walked out with Joe.

They said Burney streaked off home, and Dora was left alone in there, with her head down on her desk--and I guess she certainly deserves it.