Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall with a good deal of pleasure the football games during my cadet days, between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...
...clock the cadets will form again in the Yard and start their march to Soldiers Field through the Class of 1877 Gate back of Widener Library, and turn left on Massachusetts Avenue. They will then follow Bow, Arrow, and DeWolfe Streets to the Parkway across the Weeks Bridge and turn right on Soldiers Field Road to Gate 20 of the Stadium...
...porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours of anguish before she could be released from her precarious situation...
Arriving in the Beacon Park Yards, Allston, at 11 o'clock this morning, the West Point Cadets will form military array on Cambridge Street heading east. The parade will follow Cambridge Street to Soldiers Field Road, where it will turn left to Anderson Bridge; cross the bridge and follow Boylston Street to the Yard by way of Johnston Gate, opposite the Unitarian Church. At this point the companies will be dismissed for luncheon, in two groups...
There are other various and sundry things the Plebe must do but there is little of the old system of hazing left. We mean physical hazing. "Mental hazing" by means of trick questions is done, but even this is not considered hazing for it is done in the spirit of fun. No upperclassman will ever touch a Plebe. It just isn't done, as it was twenty or thirty years...