Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, the instructors hand out a long lesson and the Plebe must teach himself, for when he gets to class he is expected more to recite and less to be instructed. More than three-fourths of classroom work is recitation. This requires a new method of study. That is what makes Plebe year so hard, not the number of subjects but the acquiring of the new way of learning. The main cause of men failing in a course is because they have not learned how to study...
...relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long in the annals of war and of fame. But the "Lost Cause" was indeed lost and after 1865 life at West Point returned somewhat to normal...
West Point, the locality, was well known as a site of extreme importance long before West Point, the Military Academy replaced with its buildings of instruction the forts and bastions of defense. The name West Point was first brought before the public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts...
...discussion of the customs and traditions of West Point is a discussion of the Academy itself. In the long life of the Corps, certain unwritten habits of conduct have developed, and many stories of former escapades have been handed down...
...greatest tradition that West Point has or can ever have, is the "long grey line" of cadets who have gone before. For more than a century and a quarter West Point has been equipping the country's military leaders. It is with pride for the past and ambition for the future that the Corps boasts of the real tradition symbolised by the motto: DUTY--HONOR--COUNTRY