und of their cheering.

The flotilla drew around the curving water-front and toward the Gate. To
the left, the remains of the camp dotted the plain below the Presidio
hills; every last man of them was on the bulkhead in front of the fort,
waving his brown hat and cheering the lucky devils who went first. The
great hill guns bellowed good-bye as the transports slipped through the
gleaming strait. Gradually the convoy wheeled 'round again, the bigger
vessels keeping up until outside the Heads. Then the first expedition
went on alone.

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!"

FOOTNOTES:

[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
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special runs up on the University track and stops
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Your theory might work all right at a city college or even at
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talking it over, and when the civilians had drifted off to
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