jForetoorb The scribe bends low over his parchment. His pen moves across the blank pages and the pictures of succeeding years take form. Here a touch of serious- ness in the brief record of the influence of high ideals, mingled with a bit of the light gayety of an almostforgotten Prom; here the majesty of the stately elms and purple shadows crowning the Hill, shot through with the eager dreams of youth looking into the future. The ever present story of Wisconsin is being written. Arrested by the stem note of the bugle calling to arms, the scribe turns the page and writes in scarlet the names and deeds of those sons of Wisconsin who, endowed with a spirit without which there could have been no peace in the world, chose the khaki and sword instead of cap and gown. With no lance broken in life ' s tournament, these men left the peaceful ways for the ways of war; left the dawn just breaking over Lake Mendota for the sunset over the Somme. Falling thus, they wanted no recompense. The name of one man is written again and again across the pages of the story which is Wisconsin; that name is Charles Richard Van Hise, the incarna- tion of the virile spirit of peace-time and war-time Wisconsin. To him, in its crisis, the University turned; upon him rested the responsibility of meeting an unparalleled situation in its history. It was justly fitting that the last days of a man who had given the best efforts of his life in building an insitution upon the splendid ideal of unhampered human development, should be devoted to equipping and inspiring men to go forth and secure this freedom for a distressed world. Again the high, clear note of the bugle, sounding taps to the spirit of war, peals forth. Another page is turned, and the thread of the story, so rudely broken by grim battle, is taken up again. The finger of war has written and moved on. But it has changed the plot of the story. A thread of something infinitely finer has been introduced, which cannot, must not, be disregarded. The indelible influence will pervade the pages of the future and the spirit of its warning stand forth that all men may read!
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