Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Building.* Each kept clear in mind his view of the bone of contention: The Navy like almost all U. S. institutions of college rank, limits its athletes to three years of collegiate competition. The Army allows members of its three upper classes? to play irrespective of varsity experience a cadet may have had before reaching West Point. The Navy thought the Army ought to conform with the general rule. The Army thought the Navy was complaining because it had been beaten by Army so often lately...
...being two minutes too long--is about the Bowman-Gilligan collision, in which the former was knocked-out completely for an hour or so, being hit on a more vulnerable spot on his cranium than was Gilligan, who recovered in a minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga; and if true, it goes to prove once more that history repeats itself. Tommy Loughran...
...strong running carried him over the last Harvard line three times during the afternoon and never could one feel that he would not break loose again. During the first half, the Crimson ends forced him in and the aggressive line dropped him in his tracks, but the meteoric Cadet captain could not be denied once he got under...
...Cambridge is that it produces nothing in the way of processions save an occasional boy scout troop on patriotic occasions and a few torch-bearing automobiles the night before election. The Army game fills this gap in his emotional life very successfully, and after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond would come to himself with a start in the midst of a lecture...
...been handed down as true that when Edgar Allen Poe was a cadet, he furnished the surprise element in the life of the Corps. On one occasion it was announced that white gloves would be worn to the next formation. Cadet Poe complied with orders and wore white gloves--and nothing else...