Word: demerit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets 25 to 50 hours in the bull ring, for being A.W.O.L., 100 hours. For insubordination, he is promptly expelled. Despite these rules and punishments...