five o'clock
Listen to 'em , how they _ do _ cheer . He 's the first one to go . '' She went back to her room , shivering , and spent the next day in bed with an aching head . She rose in the evening , however -- a handbill had been slid under her door at five o'clock , calling a `` Mass Meeting '' of the university at eight , and she felt it her duty to go ; but when she got to the great hall she found a seat in the dimmest corner , farthest from the rostrum . The president of the university addressed the tumultuous many hundreds before him , for tumultuous they were until he quieted them . He talked to them soberly of patriotism , and called upon them for `` deliberation and a little patience . '' There was danger of a stampede , he said , and he and the rest of the faculty were in a measure responsible to their fathers and mothers for them .