And in the finishing of it, they were Called Out of Ranks (as they well knew they might be) to take station where they would watch the march of the world and not be in it any more. they wouldn't--we feel sure--think of themselves as heroes for that. Everybody gets called out of the march sooner or later and maybe (they thought) it isn't so had to be called out in the full flush of satisfaction with doing a good job well.

Our Job May Be Bigger

There may well be a bigger job to do--for all of us--within the measurable future. The general nature and extent of our country's policy are, of course, proper matters for the thought and discussion of every citizen, now and up to the time when unanimity of action may become a sheer necessity of self-preservation.

But the ultimate personal obligation of a citizen admits of no debate; still less of debate founded upon anxiety for one's own skin; least of all of irresponsible, highly publicized debate by a minority of men of that University on whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops of the trees, and we must bestir ourselves ... believing that it is a call to us."

Signed by the following members of the Class of 1917:

Harrison G. Reynolds, John M. Connolly, Clement K. Stodder, Gerald S. Pratt, Robert M. Benjamin, George W. Cobb, Jr., H. Wm. Radovsky, Philip Klein, D. C. Robinson, Thomas White, F. B. Foster, Homer L. Sweetser, George Eliot Leighton, Blodgett Sage, Robert Keith Leavitt, Harold S. Anderson, Frank J. Heinz, Edward P. Freedman, James F. Foster, John George Heinz, Jose A. Machado, J. Milton French, R. H. Davison, Amos R. Bancroft, George F. Baker, James C. McMullin, Graham B. Blaine, Kern Moyse, F. C. Rieker, George Burnham, III, W. Willcox, Jr., Charles A. Coolidge, Richard Harte, Amory Coolidge.