Galactic Patrol

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1: Graduation

Kinnison and van Buskirk bury the "Brittania's" lifeboat.

Dominating twice a hundred square miles of campus, parade–ground, Airport, and spaceport, a ninety–story edifice of chromium and glass sparkled dazzlingly in the bright sunlight of a June morning. This monumental pile was Wentworth Hall, in which the Tellurian candidates for the Lens of the Galactic Patrol live and move and have their being. One wing of its topmost floor seethed with tense activity, for that wing was the habitat of the lordly FiveYear Men, this was Graduation Day, and in a few minutes Class Five was due to report in Room A.

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