Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gustaf (who probably liked the Devil's Chamber better than the Church salon) was packed off to the Hamina Cadet School at the age of 14 and immediately established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant...
...John Paul, aged twelve, having been bound over to one James Younger, a shipowner, sailed from Whitehaven, in England, in the brig Friendship, as a master's apprentice; he was thus in very much the same status as a midshipman, or more nearly a merchant marine cadet of today. Engaging in the West Indies and American colony trade, he served until 1764, when he became a second officer, the next year first officer of one of the Younger ships. Released from his indenture in 1766, he became, at slightly under 21 years of age, captain of the John...
...military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets 25 to 50 hours in the bull ring...
...most colorful match of the afternoon from the spectator point of view was the bout between Pete Illman and Cadet Welles in the 155 pound class. In a tight battle that lasted very nearly the entire nine minutes, Pete Illman finally succumbed to Welles' power and was pinned in 8:07. Illman, who has never been pinned before in his entire Varsity wrestling career (he is a Senior), was handicapped by an injured wrist and by the fact he was wreatling the best Army...
Presenting a revised lineup to start the new year, Coach Wes Fesler will put his basketball team on the indoor Athletic Building floor to face a cadet quintet from West Point tomorrow night...