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He replied that if he were useful enough as a private a commission might in time come his way , and , as I say , I did not feel at liberty to attempt dissuasion . He left to join a regiment to which he had been assigned , and many of you were at the station to bid him farewell . `` But enthusiasm may be too contagious ; even a great and inspiring motive may work for harm , and the university must not become a desert . In the twenty-four hours since that young man went to join the army last night , one hundred and eleven of our young men students have left our walls ; eighty-four of them went off together at three o'clock to catch an east-bound train at the junction and enlist for the Navy at Newport . We are , I say , in danger of a stampede . '' He spoke on , but Dora was not listening ; she had become obsessed by the idea which seemed to be carrying her to the border of tragedy . When the crowd poured forth from the building she went with it mechanically , and paused in the dark outside .