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consented to accept some one or two recruits, of 

 course only after a most rigid examination into their 

 physical capacity, and after they had shown that 

 they knew how to ride and shoot. I 'may add that 

 in no case was I disappointed in the men thus taken. 

 Harvard being my own college, I had such a 

 swarm of applicants from it that I could not take 

 one in ten. What particularly pleased me, not only 

 in the Harvard but the Yale and Princeton men, and, 

 indeed, in these recruits from the older States gen- 

 erally, was that they did not ask for commissions. 

 With hardly an exception they entered upon their 

 duties as troopers in the spirit which they held to the 

 end, merely endeavoring to show that no work could 

 be too hard, too disagreeable, or too dangerous for 

 them to perform, and neither asking nor receiving 

 any reward in the way of promotion or considera- 

 tion. The Harvard contingent was practically 

 raised by Guy Murchie, of Maine. He saw all the 

 fighting and did his duty with the utmost gallantry, 

 and then left the service as he had entered it, a 

 trooper, entirely satisfied to have done his duty 

 and no man did it better. So it was with Dudley 

 Dean, perhaps the best quarterback who ever played 

 on a Harvard Eleven; and so with Bob Wrenn, a 

 quarterback whose feats rivalled those of Dean's, 

 and who, in addition, was the champion tennis player 

 of America, and had, on two different years, saved 



