Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third successive year Army's football team, backed by a cadet corps of twelve hundred invades the Stadium to do battle with Harvard in what always turns out to be the most colorful game of the season. After preliminary band manoeuvers and the parade of the cadets the teams will come out for practice and will then start the game at 2 o'clock...
...move, the tennis courts are crowded and the Plain dotted with enthusiastic golfers. Those "elephants" who have not yet mastered the dance march daily to Cullom, while the "walri" who cannot swim go to the gymnasium pool for hardboiled instruction. When a cadet has qualified in swimming he has the privilege of canoeing on the Hudson or swimming in Delafield Pond, a beautiful little artificial pool nestling in an arm of the rolling hills above the Plain. It the cadet is lazy he may take a red comforter, compose himself in the shade of Ft. Clinton parapet, and sleep...
Other diversions include movies in the gym, which now boasts of movietone equipment. These picture shows are presented tri-weekly. Instead of eating the evening meal in the mess hall, a cadet may receive permission to dine at the Hotel Thayer, on invitation, or he may go on picnic parties to Delafield Pond...
...climax of the camp season. Camp Clinton is decorated and lighted, a hop floor is constructed in the middle of the main street, and a "boodle" table is set out, loaded with tempting refreshments. Promptly at one o'clock in the morning the white gloved hand of the cadet officer of the day goes up, and the insistent roll of a drum shatters the beauty of "Army Blue". The next day the Corps moves back to barracks, camp is dismantled, the "cows" come home from furlough, and the stage is set for another long battle with the Academic Department...
...West Point as the Cadet Sees It," by Cadet James McCormack '32, of West Point...