Have we the right to punish when we are forced to admit that none of us has ever attempted to help Mr.Jetson to escape from the fruits of his temperament?
Mr.President, how would you attempt to extinguish a fire?
By fanning it?
Yet, when a member of this class is smouldering in his own wrath, it is proposed to meet his sullenness by casting him out of our friendship.

Do we not owe some duty to our country in this matter?
Mr.Jetson is one of our capable students in this brigade, and if he be given a fair chance to graduate, he is likely to become a Naval officer of merit.

Do we desire to take upon ourselves the probable smothering of such a Naval career?
Mr.President, and you, gentlemen of the second class, I trust sincerely that the motion of Coventry in this case will not prevail.

I feel, as I believe many of you now present feel, that we should be taking too much upon ourselves, and that we should be making a grave mistake.

If the motion now before the class should be defeated, I shall then be delighted to second any other motion that has for its object the finding of some way to make Mr.Jetson feel more fully that he is one of us, that he has our full sympathy, and that we hope to see him mould his character into a form that will enable him to become a credit to the United States Navy." As Darrin sat down there was a ripple of applause.