“We go from room to room hearing talk,” began McGregor. “On the street corners downtown in the evenings and in towns and villages men talk and talk. Books are written, jaws wag. The jaws of men are loose. They wabble about--saying nothing.” McGregor's excitement grew. “If there is all this unrest why does it not come to something?” he demanded. “Why do not you who have trained brains strive to find the secret of order in the midst of this disorder? Why is something not done?” The professor ran up and down on the platform. “I do not know what you mean,” he cried nervously. McGregor turned slowly and stared at the class. He tried to explain. “Why do not men lead their lives like men?” he asked. “They must be taught to march, hundreds of thousands of men. Do you not think so?” McGregor's voice rose and his great fist was raised. “The world should become a great camp,” he cried. “The brains of the world should be at the organisation of mankind. Everywhere there is disorder and men chatter like monkeys in a cage. Why should some man not begin the organisation of a new army? If there are men who do not understand what is meant let them be knocked down.” The professor leaned forward and peered through his spectacles at McGregor. “I understand your kind,” he said, and his voice trembled. “The class is dismissed. We deprecate violence here.” The professor hurried through a door and down a long hallway with the class chattering at his heels. McGregor sat in his chair in the empty class room and stared at the wall. As the professor hurried away he muttered to himself: “What's getting in here? What's getting into our schools?” * * * * * Late on the following afternoon McGregor sat in his room thinking of what had happened in the class. He had decided that he would not spend any more time at the University but would devote himself entirely to the study of law. Several young men came in. Among the students at the University McGregor had seemed very old. Secretly he was much admired and had often been the subject of talk. Those who had now come to see him wanted him to join a Greek Letter Fraternity. They sat about his room, on the window sill and on a trunk by the wall. They smoked pipes and were boyishly eager and enthusiastic. A glow shone in the cheeks of the spokesman--a clean-looking youth with black curly hair and round pink--and--white cheeks, the son of a Presbyterian minister from Iowa. “You have been picked by our fellows to be one of us,” said the spokesman. “We want you to become an Alpha Beta Pi. It is a grand fraternity with chapters in the best schools in the country. Let me tell you.” He began reeling off a list of names of statesmen, college professors, business men and well known athletes who belonged to the order.