Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fellow Americans, West Point is not turning out today any group of blood-thirsty fighters. The men who are about to be rewarded by diplomas are not products of an unbalanced militarism. These young men are sensitive, what though their cognomens be "Spike" or "Biff", and they have not a little Cambridge in them to balance the West Point. Remember what I have said in the next war. The cadet of today is the general of tomorrow"--West Point Commencement Address...
...precarious usefulness to Radcliffe, they must see that abnormally large buttons are issued to the cadets this week-end. The cogent critique printed elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON points to these brass protuberances as the one flaw in the otherwise enchanting make up of the men from West Point. Apparently the only hope lies in making these buttons large enough to balance the captivating effect of the gold braid decorations, each with its story of hard work and romantic adventure...
...colleges are farther apart in concept and fact than West Point and Harvard. The difference of their destinations was clear in 1895, when they first met on the football field; thirty-three years have only served to erase whatever rudimentary parallelisms once existed. In October of 1928 the path of each has once more come full circle, and behold, here is the other. The fundamental changes that have overtaken the Academy and the College, instead of making an anomaly of their meeting, lend it a strange and altogether pleasing overtone of appropriateness...
Harvard and West Point stand at the extremities of the bracket of education. But though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect of Harvard on West Point and West Point on Harvard is no key to the value of this meeting. No such heightening is needed for the healthy contrasting colors that make this a welcome Saturday at Harvard...
...tremendous regulation and difficult schedule at West Point, detailed elsewhere in this issue, has always amazed civilians. The fact that the cadets rise at six in winter, at a little after five in summer, must be ready at any time for inspection, take military exercises in the afternoon, must be in bed at ten, must fill literally a thousand requirements--make the life hard. West Point takes justifiable pride for that. Exacting selection of men to enter the academy, sternest possible training after they enter, and ten weeks' freedom in four years' time--it brings to mind almost the mortification...