Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veritas Productions is adamant, the College group must dig up a new title...
...mere chance that the Military Academy attracts such men for its cadets. The standards of physical, mental, and emotional prowess that a boy must show before he is even admitted to West Point are enough to make most youths turn to the less arduous pursuits of the civilian, and the rigors of undergraduate life once he is admitted require either great stamina or a peculiar degree of insensitiveness...
...life of the Plebe, for instance, has been famed in song and story as the epitome of refined torture. He must serve as the butt of every upperclassman's ill-temper, quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
...year the following June. His personal rights and privileges are more limited than any buck private's in boot camp, and his work week, even by the Academy's presumably conservative estimate, is calculated to take 72 hours of his time. For the right to these dubious advantages, he must first undergo a complete mental and physical check-up which may reject him for such various causes as facial ugliness or unfilled cavities in the teeth...
There are other ways that the Academy makes sure no lillies slip through unnoticed. For one, the Cadet's annual pay comes to $973 per annum, out of which sum he must provide all his expenses including books and the 16 different uniforms required. In the words of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Superintendent of the Academy, "This stipend being probably the lowest wage scale in the United States, the Cadet must exercise the utmost frugality to keep a balanced budget...