"I have often wondered why we didn't have trophies around the school," smiled Cadet Douglas, Don's brother representative of the class.
"The whole trouble is that we have never had a regular committee to attend to that matter," the colonel explained. "Each class has won some kind of a trophy in years gone by and has cared for it just as they wanted to. Some few of them were hung up in the various study halls, some in the assembly room, and I'm afraid some of them have just been carelessly stowed away somewhere. I want all of you men, as representatives, to scour the halls from end to end and unearth as many of these emblems of victory as can be found. We'll check up against a list until we have all the trophies that Woodcrest ever received."
"Have you a list of all trophies, sir?" asked Hudson.
"No, but I know where we can get one. Ever since the founding of the school we have had our school magazine, the _Woodcrest Bombardment_, and surely each number will tell of the class winning any emblem and what that emblem was. Fortunately, you will find a complete set in the library, each monthly volume intact, and you will find the set of the greatest value in your quest. My suggestion is that the representative read through the school notes of each book and find out just what each class won and then make a list up, against which we will check the recovered cups, flags, banners or whatever we have."
"When we get them all it is your plan to place them in Clanhammer Hall, isn't it?" Don asked.
"Yes, that is my thought. Early this winter I want to open the old historic hall as the Alumni Hall. At that time I want to have the old graduates come back and see the banners and cups hanging on the walls, showing them that we of today appreciate their struggles, their spirit and their loyalty. Nothing keeps a school up like the spirit of loyalty and the remembrance of past deeds of courage and self-sacrifice. You boys can see how it is. If you won a silver cup for Woodcrest this year by hard, determined struggle you wouldn't want to come here to school ten years from now and find out that no one remembered the first thing about it or even so much as knew where the trophy was. I want all of those old students to come back here and see that the school remembers them and appreciates what they have done in the past to make the institution a place to be proud of."