Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Other diversions include movies in the gym, which now boasts of movietone equipment. These picture shows are presented tri-weekly. Instead of eating the evening meal in the mess hall, a cadet may receive permission to dine at the Hotel Thayer, on invitation, or he may go on picnic parties to Delafield Pond...
...climax of the camp season. Camp Clinton is decorated and lighted, a hop floor is constructed in the middle of the main street, and a "boodle" table is set out, loaded with tempting refreshments. Promptly at one o'clock in the morning the white gloved hand of the cadet officer of the day goes up, and the insistent roll of a drum shatters the beauty of "Army Blue". The next day the Corps moves back to barracks, camp is dismantled, the "cows" come home from furlough, and the stage is set for another long battle with the Academic Department...
...West Point Cadet Corps, arriving in Cambridge at 10.30 o'clock this morning, will parade to the Yard, it was announced yesterday...
...both of the elevens. But it is not a final determination either. In 1928 Harvard rallied successfully after the 15 to 0 Army defeat to beat Dartmouth the following week and a somewhat questionable Yale team later in the season. Last year a tie with the then powerful Cadet machine set Crimson hopes high but a crushing defeat from Dartmouth seven days later blasted them again...
Intelligent people who wouldn't dream of asserting that the horses pulling the big wagons in circus parades are having a big time will insist that a cadet is merely being modest when he says he doesn't enjoy parades. Probably this is due to the fact that none of the movie, novel, or short story writers have been able to get the real, honest-to-God, low down on Dress Parade. This inability to read between the lines, so to speak, is probably because nobody is allowed between the lines during parade...