title: On Station: Galactic Council Realm (Volume 1)
author:  J. Clifton Slater 
description: J. Clifton Slater spent twenty-six years in advertising and is a United States Marine Corps veteran.
zlib_text: GALACTIC PATROL
  
    
  
  Fist serialized in "ASTOUNDING," Sep '37 - Feb '38;
  
  First book, Fantasy Press hardbound, 1950;
  
    
    
  
  BY E. E. "DOC" SMITH
  
    
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
    
  
  Graduation
  
    
  
  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.
  
  Room A, the private office of the Commandant himself, the dreadful lair into
  
  which an undergraduate was summoned only to disappear from the Hall and from
  the
  
  Cadet Corps, the portentous chamber into which each year the handful of
  graduates
  
  marched and from whic