Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those are practically the first words to come to a Plebe's ear when he enters West Point. He looks around to see if he is the one being called, and nine chances out of ten, he does not look in vain. For all during the Fourth Class Year, from the minute he enters until the last company has passed in review at Graduation Parade, the Plebe hears the old cry, "You man!" I still have a tendency to stop when I hear some upperclassman call in this fashion...
...brass buttons, and stripes, and an H. Sebastian Gawd sorta air...Ah reckon that's why Ah fell so hard down at the Point...Did Ah fall?...Boy, the lines they shoot down theah would win any ole wah ovah night...Oooooah, did he drop the ball?...and he looks so sweet in his helmet too...Ah'm so sorry, won't out side win now? But you know they simply eat lines up themselves, an Ah mean they do. You just look overcome with admiration at how wonderful they look in uniforms, and drawl out a'Wounldn't they...
...gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps for his readers the visitation...
With one hundred men detailed to look after the visitors, there should be no need or excuse for the usual information bureau type of hospitality. Each man need be responsible for but a small group of West Pointers and so feel free to enter into an easier intimacy with his guests than has been possible heretofore...
...faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...