Tom Ashley, Senior and 'Varsity fullback, with his eyes wet in spite of himself, set his face to the west. The round sun hung red above the horizon; a few seconds earlier, it had looked over the Palo Alto hills at the deserted University campus. Beyond the ship, a path of gold lay out toward Manila and its future. Marion, leaning beside him, looked back at the fading line of surf below the Cliff House.
"Well, Tom," he said, a bit huskily, "Commencement Day's over."
"Yes," answered the Sergeant, without turning, "we're up against it, all right!"
[Footnote A: On May 25, 1898, Commencement Day at the University, the First California Volunteers sailed for the Philippine Islands. With Company K of that regiment went thirty-five Stanford students, a part of the hundred who volunteered, in various regiments, for the Spanish War.]
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"Ill[I'll] be hanged if I will!" shouted the patient, preparing to rise.
special runs up on the University track and stops betwen[between] the Library and Encina, the flaming bunting
Your theory might work all right at a city college or even at Berkeley, but on this campus, nit[not] so!"
talking it over, and when the civilians had drifted off to ed[bed] or to the inglorious studies of a routine now ended for
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