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...Yard dormitories fall into four distinct types--the modern type, the ancient Hollis (1763) and Stoughton (1805) kind, the large Holworthy (1312) and Grays (1863) variety, and finally the post-Civil War style of Matthews, Weld (both 1872) and Thayer...
...entries in Thayer. Matthews, and Weld contain the most men per entry. Every year some one of the seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...
...seven of the freshman halls, the room numbers have nothing to do with the floor on which the suite is located. Students who were worried when they were assigned to Thayer 68 can look forward to a fourth floor room. Students can get an idea from the following paragraphs where their room will be located in Grays, Hollis, Holworthy, Matthews, Stoughton, Thayer, and Weld...
...says Francesco Mer from Thayer 3 and Florence, Italy, "it's informal, friendly atmosphere, less tense. For instance, one thing good is a dining hall, it gives a sense of community and unity. And these visiting professors like Mr. Emmanuel, he is a poet himself, not only a scholar but a lively literary spirit...
...news, handed out at West Point in a mimeographed, flatly worded communique made even the college basketball gambling scandals pale in comparison. The honor code had been set up in 1817 by the "Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...