Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chilly consensus was melted last week by a powerful voice that spoke up in the cadets' behalf. New York's Cardinal Spellman announced that he had asked the three Catholic men's colleges in his archdiocese-Fordham University, Manhattan College and lona College-to admit the cadets. All three colleges said they would-adding that no cadet would be allowed to play on any varsity team. "To err is human," said Francis Cardinal Spellman, "to forgive, divine...
...honor system. Army football players, he said earlier, were "unbelievably fatigued" after hours of practice on the gridiron, and had to face the iron scholastic schedules of the Academy. Their high morale might, he suggested, have caused them to put success of the team above the reputation of the cadet corps. If he had been speaking solely as a professional coach, defending his way of life, this would have been understandable; as a spokesman for West Point, he seemed involved in a contradiction. If the cadets were to be defended on the ground that the pressure of Big Football...
...Hand called it one of the most "painful" decisions of his life. The morality of the country, the three-man board felt, would be endangered if it allowed any compromise of the honor of men who were to lead their fellow citizens to battle. And a breach of the cadet code also involved a fundamental consideration -a cadet's place on the graduation list determines his place in the Army hierarchy; one who cheats gains a lifelong advantage over those who do not. The board's recommendation: dismissal...
Repeated Questions. Players, faced with bruising schedules against the best college teams in the country, still had to maintain the iron scholastic requirements of the Academy. They were helped, with the Army's full approval, by upper-class tutors. One of these, Cadet Ronald Clough, said that when players he was helping gave him problems to do, he often got the same problems the next day in his own classes...
None of this seemed to invalidate the regretful conclusions of the board. But it made it difficult not to feel that the fault rested as much with the Army as with the grey-clad youths who faced dismissal. The Army's botched handling of the dismissal itself left cadets confused about their status and their future. Technically, their dismissal was "under honorable conditions," though in fact they were branded otherwise. The cadets' case was best put by Harold Loehlein, honor cadet, captain-elect of the 1951 football team, arid president of the first class. Said...