Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point was the result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long...
"Massachusetts defeated Siwash on a wet field here today, 27-0. The long passes of the Bay Staters were too much for the men from the West who . . . ."
Unfortunately, as with the Texas sailors, there is this year, some difference of opinion concerning the merits of certain issues aboard the good ship on which the Army and Navy serve. That is "shipmate stuff" and can hardly be discusses here. It has no bearing on the larger issue. In...
"On Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, agreeable to arrangements made, and with military punctuality, the Cadets were at the southern barrier of the town, on the Neck. Here they were met by the Board of selectmen, who had descended from their carriages, and were attended by the Police Officer...
Few colleges are farther apart in concept and fact than West Point and Harvard. The difference of their destinations was clear in 1895, when they first met on the football field; thirty-three years have only served to erase whatever rudimentary parallelisms once existed. In October of 1928 the path...