Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two months after entering were given to strict training in military lines and in the customs of West Point. We drilled, we heard lectures, we had unofficial talks by those over us, we asked questions, and gradually we learned. We were learning to take it and like it. Our little world was no longer strange...
...rockon they need the protection...they fall so easily...? men now are different. They know it all...Why you'd think they'd all had front row seats at the creation'n showed Gawd what was wrong...They're smooth!...And when they dance they sho don't take that Present Ahms attitude of the Ahmy...Anything but!...Ah love Hahvud men...they know so much, an' they look twice as much as they know...'n' when you go ridin' with 'em...well...they don't have to pull any 'it smacks of the Bowery' stuff foah protection...
...Washington suggested that Congress authorized the establishment of an Engineer's School at West Point. For various reasons, the actual establishment did not take place until 1802. That is the birthday of the Military Academy...
...been holding all week. The question of the guard and tackle posts, which has been something of a mystery of late, seems to have been answered by the assignment of W. Ticknor and Davis respectively to these two positions on the right side of the line. B. Ticknor will take care of his duties at center, while Trainer and Barrett will oppose Perry, the Army's gigantic All-American right tackle. Putnam, Gilligan, Huguley, and White will compose the backfield...
...other hand, it is evident that those who take the midway stand have an even more convincing proof of their contention that colleges and schools present individual problems...