Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation, which already had its fill of scandal and corruption, was shocked, sorry and puzzled by the news from West Point. Ninety of the Academy's 2,500 cadets, among them the bulk of Army's disciplined and magnificent football team, faced dismissal for a breach of the Cadet Corps' sacrosanct honor system...
...first glance, the mass dismissal seemed a severe, regrettable but eminently clear-cut and righteous act of disciplinary surgery, performed in the interests of the Army's loftiest ideals. The facts, as announced, were few and terse. The Academy's honor code-by which every cadet is not only duty-bound to shun lying, cheating and stealing, but to report his own transgressions and those of his fellows -had been broken. Academy officials had learned, from one cadet's report, of wholesale cribbing for examinations. Concerned for the Academy's integrity, the Army then arranged...
Education: Graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901 18th in his class, cadet corps first captain, and an All-Southern Conference tackle...
...Crimson added two runs in the third on a single hit. White reached on a fielder's choice and stole second. Akillian made first, flattening football-quarterback-first-baseman Bobby Black with a perfect, if unintentional block, and White went to third on an error by the Cadet second baseman. Walsh again batted both men in with a single...
Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...