Word: points
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which shows that the undergraduate at West Point was surprisingly like his Harvard brother, that human nature being what it is, the undergraduates of today are not less alike than those of the good old times, and that there is no basic reason why the men of the cannot continue to assemble together periodically to witness these friendly Crimson and of the Black, Gold and Gray contests between their teams...
...present system of athletic training at West Point is so different from that of most colleges that a brief description of it might be of interest to Harvard men. Twenty-five years ago no general participation in athletics, as distinguished from the course in calisthenics, gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wresting and riding required of all cadets, was necessary. Participation in the major sports as well as in tennis; golf, polo, etc., was optional and no instruction was provided for those who took up tennis or golf, which, incidentally, could be played only on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons...
Those who have made the various varsity teams become available for work as graduate coaches at the Point or as coaches for corps area, department or regimental teams as the case may be, wherever they happen to be stationed...
...series of articles entitled "The Good Old Times" that recently appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean Gauss of Princeton describes the trials and tribulations, as well as more amusing incidents in both faculty and undergraduate life in the early days of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. West Point, in its comparatively brief existence, has also has several of these periods, referred to by the "Old Grads" as "the good old days...
...them they certainly did down the iron stairways of cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the 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...