Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...adequately summarizes the annual encampment of the Corps of Cadets. To the newly recognized yearling summer camp is the fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of a long plebe year just past; to the first classman it means chevrons and the privileges which only a first classman may enjoy; to everybody summer camp is a period of welcome relief and relaxation after a long and exacting academic grind. West Point life during the pleasant summer months more than lives up to the hopes entertained...
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...
...borrow an old definition, a parade is composed of one band, twelve hundred kaydets, and five thousand spectators. The band plays, the kaydets stand and gripe, and the spectators thrill and go home resolving to be 100 per cent Americans and vote the straight Republican tickets. Some kaydets enjoy parades--Graduation Parade, for instance, because it's the last one. But the average kaydet doesn't enjoy the average parade...
...nearest the President came to answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...night are falling over Soldiers field one Saturday this fall the credit will not be permitted in the remotest degree to attach to the university at Cambridge. The victory will merely be a sportsmanlike achievement of a group of young amateurs who happen to attend classes there and enjoy the exercise. Cheers, if any, will be for the good old game of football, without the whisper of a hint that Harvard is involved...