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...time of the Plebe year is Christmas. While the other classes are on their ten day leave, the Plebe is "at ease." His class runs the Academy during that time. They furnish the acting cadet officers, have hops of their own and are free to wander around the Post. The Plebe always meets young ladies at the Christmas hops, and the social activities of the week are always looked forward...
...course of West Point history has been admirably recounted in the following story written for the Crimson by Cadet P. H. Lash II of The Pointer staff...
...Military Academy first proved its value in the war of 1812. At the time less than one hundred cadets had graduated, sixty-five of whom were still in active service. Although most of these graduates served in subordinate positions throughout the war, their services won commendation, and many were brevetted for gallantry in action. In 1817 Major Sylvanus Thayer, a graduate of Dartmouth and West Point and a veteran of 1812, was appointed Superintendant of the Academy. He was especially qualified to take charge of West Point; his system, many parts of which are evident at the present time...
...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...