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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...
Enough of what cadets did in the past. There are a few stunts which are pulled year after year. Every year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...
According to Maxfield Parrish '29 who piloted the plane together with R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the Flying Club, the journey was a rough one in which they were delayed by having to follow a low pressure area almost all the way. Flying by day and landing at night, the plane hailed at Jefferson City, Missouri, Buffalo, and Rochester on the way from Wichita to Boston. The greatest delay in their flight came at Jefferson City where two days of in clement weather prevented them from taking...
...some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what the rivers of California and other States have done for American waste land...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...