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...tricky attack that the Crimson forces expect the Army to launch on Saturday, led by a diminutive Cadet named "Monk" Meyer. A triple-threater that seems destined to leave a record comparable to his famous predecessors Chris Cagle and Jack Buckler, Meyer began his meteorick career when he was substituted in the Harvard game last fall. Since then, he has kicked, passed, and run his way into the respect of every team he has faced...
...boys have contracted syphilis. The commandant retorts that if the medical officer resigns and talks he will be a pariah unable to earn a living for his family. At the following commencement it falls to the medical officer to deliver the address awarding highest honors to Cadet Thornton...
...Sept. 3 a lieutenant of the Red Militia, apparently in his cups and wearing a gaudy bathrobe, staggered toward the Alcázar shouting that he wanted to rescue a Red comrade who had fallen wounded just outside its walls. "All right!" called an Alcázar cadet, "Come and rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept. 5 the calibre of Red guns picking at the Alcázar was up to six inches, but its six-foot walls stood firm. Next day a White plane flew over...
Even West Point spirit has its limits of heroic possibility and this week things looked black for the Alcázar cadets and Commandant José Moscardó as the Madrid Cabinet in a frenzy of frustration took another "terrible decision." This was to order to Toledo thousands of gallons of gasoline, to be squirted by means of fire engines into Spain's West Point, and, by setting it alight, flood the Alcázar with searing flame until the last cadet, woman and child and the two babies born during the siege were burned out in Spain...
...escorts remarked, 'I'd like to hang the Archbishop to a tree!'. . . The rebels are said to have taken 60 horses with them into the Alcazar and their only food now is horseflesh, potatoes and wheat." Into the Alcazar in 1907 as a 14-year-old cadet went Generalissimo Franco to study in its Infantry School...