Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
...that the Yard will presently have its autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown...
Some of the mysteries of the inner shrine of West Point traditions and customs are revealed in the following article written for the Crimson by Captain I. W. Porter of The Pointer staff...
...discussion of the customs and traditions of West Point is a discussion of the Academy itself. In the long life of the Corps, certain unwritten habits of conduct have developed, and many stories of former escapades have been handed down...
...greatest tradition that West Point has or can ever have, is the "long grey line" of cadets who have gone before. For more than a century and a quarter West Point has been equipping the country's military leaders. It is with pride for the past and ambition for the future that the Corps boasts of the real tradition symbolised by the motto: DUTY--HONOR--COUNTRY