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 you that this school go down to the City Hall to-morrow."

"Mr. Chairman," said Littlefield, "I move you that George Praska be selected as spokesman for the delegation."

The resolutions were passed without debate. Littlefield stood up again.

"Mr. Chairman, it strikes me that some may have the idea that we won't be admitted to the City Hall. I have some notices here I ran off on a typewriter. It might not be a bad idea to post one on every bulletin board."

The notice was short:

Next afternoon eight hundred and fourteen students marched out of Northfield High School, crossed Nelson Avenue, and turned their faces toward the heart of the town. Four abreast, they moved along in a solid, silent, serious column. Women came to the windows of houses and looked after them in wonder. Business men along Main Street, when they reached that thoroughfare, stood in their doorways and asked what it was all about. And corner loafers, always ready to shuffle along with a crowd, trailed