"That's what I'd like to see," murmured Farley.
"Of course you would, we all would. Well, suppose we meet again on Friday afternoon at the same time and see what we have discovered? If you want to get into any closet or room that is locked up just let me know and I'll gladly give you the key. That will be all, boys."
After the colonel had left the room the cadets gathered to talk the situation over. They were all in favor of his plan and they felt confident that they would succeed in bringing to light all of the trophies of the past. Hudson suggested that they go directly to the assembly hall and make out a list of the things to be found in there. As there was still some time before drill they went in a body to the assembly room.
Douglas had a pad and pencil and noted down the trophies as they were called. In the general assembly room they found four banners, two silver cups, one silver football with a figure of a man running the ball mounted on it, and a wooden shield with two small cups on it, the result of a debating team victory. When these items had been written down they all bent over the pad in Douglas' hand.
"The red banner, the baseball trophy, is dated 1901," remarked Hendon, of the second class. "How far back do we have to go in the search?"
"How old is the school?" asked a fourth class man.
"The date on Clanhammer Hall is 1885," supplied Don.
"Then that is the date of the school," replied Hudson. "Clanhammer Hall is the original building, you know. I guess we'll find the initial number of the _Bombardment_ is dated that year, too. So it looks as though we'd have to dig back a number of years."
"Yes, but the school didn't win a trophy every year," grinned Farley. "A good old school and all that, but it didn't win something every year."
"Perhaps not, but pretty nearly," came back Don. "Don't forget, there were baseball, football, basketball, track, debating and tennis teams, to say nothing of swimming teams. I guess we'll find there are quite a few trophies when we come to look for them."
The call for drill sounded and the cadets quickly separated to assemble with their several units. Don was now a lieutenant in the infantry, but Jim was far ahead of him in his particular section, the cavalry unit, the first man in the history of the school to attain that honor who was not in the second or first class. His steady attention to drill and his heroism in saving Cadet Vench on Hill 31 had placed him in that responsible position. Terry was, to use his own expression, "still coaxing the big ladies to speak out in meeting," by which he meant he was still serving in the artillery, around his beloved guns, whose workings fascinated him.