The motion was carried with a rush.
"Mr. Chairman!" called the tireless ex-class president.
"Mr. Douglass."
"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am going to make a mistake that has become time honored among public speakers, that of telling you what you already know as well as I do. This is that Mr. Prescott ought never to have been deposed from the class presidency. I move, therefore, sir, that we rectify our stupidity and blindness by making Mr. Prescott once more our president. I beg, sir, to place in nomination for the class presidency the name of Richard Prescott, first class, U.S.M.A."
"I second the nomination, suh!" boomed out the voice of Anstey.
"Other nominations for the class presidency are in order," announced
Chairman Fullerton.
Again silence fell.
"Mr. Chairman!"
"Mr. Douglass."
"Since there are no more nominations, I move you, sir, that Mr.
Prescott be elected president of this class by acclamation."