. The Saturday evening post. ours. The littlequarter backs steps were lagging so that the man at hisside was fairly dragging him along. Are you crazy,Jim? Crazy nothing. I havent seen a mass meeting since Iwas a Freshman. May get something there. We need better than sitting round with a bunch of chaps doingtheir best to be cheerful and making a bad job of it. But the coach Oh, chuck it! Im captain of this team. We needntstay long. If I had my way Id have the whole squad on. Buster Taylor shrugged and took pace with his com-panion along the line of march. The two men were Seniors
. The Saturday evening post. ours. The littlequarter backs steps were lagging so that the man at hisside was fairly dragging him along. Are you crazy,Jim? Crazy nothing. I havent seen a mass meeting since Iwas a Freshman. May get something there. We need better than sitting round with a bunch of chaps doingtheir best to be cheerful and making a bad job of it. But the coach Oh, chuck it! Im captain of this team. We needntstay long. If I had my way Id have the whole squad on. Buster Taylor shrugged and took pace with his com-panion along the line of march. The two men were Seniors; the only Seniors on theeleven. The mood of both was subdued. And this was notsolely because of knowledge that it was the last time theywould come forth as undergraduates under the Novembermoon to watch their fellow students as various oratorssought to work them up to the proper fighting pitch of big- They had thisit was a somber one;anything pertainingconviction that itspirited singing andteam into formeven to stand at bay. game enthusiasm,thought, of course, andbut over and aboveto sentiment was thewould take more thancheering to whip thequalified to defeat orthe representatives of (an ancient rival who,filled with the confi-dence of a successful seasonthus far as well as the knowl-edge of still greater potencyin reserve, was due in townon the morrow. But there was nothing inthe atmosphere of WolsleyHall to indicate that the massof students there gatheredhad any doubt as to theirability in this in the extreme rear,in the shadow of a doorway,the two football playerscaught an impression of spiritwhich surged like the wavesof the sea. Reason told themthat it meant nothing but the sheer unwar-ranted optimism of youth and college loy-alty; knowledge advised them that whenthey took the field the lips of the throng ofpartisans would be dumb as far as they andtheir fellow players were concerned. Yet it required bothreason and knowledge to combat a force that urged t
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