Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During summer, living in camp Reveille at 5.20 o'clock; march to breakfast and back; drills and riding in morning; go mounted to dinner in white uniforms; afternoon spent in recreation; parade at 5 o'clock; after supper a band concert, cadet hop or moving pictures; taps at 10 o'clock...
...They afterwards partook of the general's hospitality at a sumptuous repast prepared under an extensive marquee on his grounds. The Cadets retired at an early hour, and the other company were entertained, and the evening enlivened with the performances of the excellent Cadet band, assisted by a band from Fort Independence...
...After relieving guard, the marshals of the day bore the invitation of the selectmen to the corps, to partake of a collation provided in Concert Hall, and conducted them thither--the Cadets wearing their side-arms only, and marching to the music of their full band...
...itself traditional who receives an appointment to the Academy Promptly Father and Mother Dumbjohn print accounts of young hopeful's appointment in the Podunk paper. He is given farewell parties, he lords it over the soft-eyed damsels, he is escorted to the train with the Podunk Fireman's band. The hero is doing the Government a favor to become a cadet...
...last parade of all is the greatest. The band plays old songs that are used only this once each year. The men of the graduates march to the front, a long straight line, they face about and the Corps that is left swings by them in review. It is almost a holy time...