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...WEST POINT, March...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The graduate of West Point rarely speaks of the Military Academy as his alma mater: for alma means kind, gracious, benign, and a mother is tender and indulgent. The Military Academy has nothing of the university in either its discipline or its course of studies. Everything is made subordinate to the one purpose, that its graduates may be able engineers and soldiers that are trained to obey. The necessary hardships are such that few would prefer the necessities of West Point to the luxuries of Sing Sing, did not each one keep in mind the happy time...
...Freshman at West Point is called a Plebe, and woe be unto that Plebe who does not always remember the respect he owes to all until his six months of probation are over. His principal enemy is the Yearling, (sophomore), who in turn trembles before the august second class man, glad to receive his notice, even though he call him but an Ex-Plebe. Every one who knows nothing about it, imagines that hazing at West Point is something terrible. As a matter of fact. force, or physical violence of any kind is never used, and the basis...
Like all other cadets, I am living in Edgar Poe's old room, which in common with his numerous other old rooms, has his name scratched on the window pane. I firmly believe that the troubles of West Point lent his character its peculiar despondency...
...inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise. All her contemporaries were saying nice things about her. The Delaware College Review declared that the Advocate was full...