Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because he best combined the qualities that West Point stands...
...stopped about 11:30 for speeding. Explaining, they got an escort instead of a ticket. After a final pause at the West Point gate, they rushed to the quarters of the waiting Adjutant. There on the doorstep Woody identified himself, raised his right hand, took the oath as a cadet of the United States Military Academy - just eight minutes before the dead line...
...House That Thayer Built. Few West Pointers have made so dramatic an entrance or so notable an exit as First Captain Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
Thayer also inaugurated: 1) high stand ards of admission; 2) the breaking up of classes into small sections so that instructors could speed the bright cadets and worry along with the dullards; 3) daily recitations and grades for all cadets; 4) a Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, to in spire public confidence; 6) a cadet officer hierarchy, based solely on merit; 7) a strong community of spirit, based on absolute honesty. By the time Thayer resigned in 1833, West Point had earned international renown...
Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...