Show y 1 26 vo B CLAW 1901 by W congre almost ever ear hai baa before it the case of some et point cadet who allowed his animal spar W its to get the better of him am and who tan der the impulse of the moment commit ted some act of hazing or of another kind of a discipline breach and therefore suffered dismissal lasal the life at nest at CIA point la 13 a hard bard one and each successive 1101 board of visitors Is likely tb fla make some nerl sug to malo the cadets con u ara ji busl L a little mols moi Irks irksome just now no pm mel alp ie is speculation on the subject of what the official visitors at of the year ol 01 ley baco grace 1909 will recommend as an adil idly W IAN to 0 the code of discipline 4 to soot tinie aga r ter gYman of the church of england iliah ta veit point ire ile wished to set get full knowledge of I 1 at u the system of study and the disciplinary S bl the institution and so he rose at reveille and J day his own until tapa had sent the paw toddlers told lers to their blankets e ds after seeing ligh is out went to 04 t lr rho at oct 3 14 4 el 1 41 be y 4 4 40 x A cae ia t x 04 t 1 ira eo I 1 it cerit cert caks and there itt in remones re nones to x iSile sUon from the superintendent 11 durha academy he summarized hia his of the days duties of the ly by paraphrasing tile remark of 91 the frenchman hman on one of the uri cri a meau battlefields its 1 magnificent bt bit tt it 8 a beastly grind lord roberts not long ago declared flait bulted L states school on the he I 1 hudson tt Is the greatest ansti in the world the ae hero 0 of hn doubtless bad had made ot of tha the record records and of averages tor for hottory shows that in the ra draber of soldiers entitled to be called great vast et foist point has turned out more than ill lit military schools of the con I 1 combined i ed lence and discipline are the stones of the success of a wier according to all the authora del tl who judge solely by requite ob talal disobedience of orders means froni froal th we e military academy of direct orders la Is a was thing practically unknown at the infractions of regulations may in a tense be termed disobedience but they are never so rega regarded Edek IP any of the world a schools boy nature woud 1 eds da be birie remade made it if the rules of any were to be kept to the letter of the kir DIRel pline at west point Is rigid to severity AMR as disciplinary moth method a are concerned the I 1 it la Is the ehme today to day as it Ks la in the daya ot at grant and ad lee take a day at the academy and compare its atlee with those ot of any other institution no mat ter w of what country and it 11 will b be bi i seen that in eOm comparison arlson parison to the cadet labor the work of etu stu W at other play During certain 3 of the yeary thera la Is little play at west alt drill in open air gives the requisite to keep the physique right and for rec apparently abet e le eed has change a with the pasa pass ing years but in it lh general at way the day days a pro gram at ts tj hab it 11 wa aveille at d roll call at 6 20 break hit at at 6 25 75 guard intuni ar recitations itald cd 8 until 1 dinner I 1 until 1 1 19 40 recitations and study from 3 2 until 4 drill iron i 4 antii 5 20 a parade ata aka 30 supper at fit 6 ludy study from irom 1 7 until 9 30 tattoo then tape taps and sleep beep there are no recitations at the united slated military ill tary ara laetit en on saturday afternoons atter noone and the cadets leta are div gian u what whal Is called release irom from quarters arters sa with ith er mission to visit one another in or to roam about the reservation la ta 1149 good care under pain of dismissal to keep hul going off unite limits release 0 frola from quarter quarters comes for some del the breaking of come some email small rule mean means to quarter or the walking of extra guard u toura tours thi boy who unwittingly puts qu n A wt dair of white tou tr baving an iron rust etain arf them and wears them at t drill or at dress pa ride ae will know no release from quitters tor for days should mould a speck of rust be found on his rine rifle at sunday aday morning insaf inspection atlon he will shoulder that rol and walk two or more boura hours up and down the arpa alt of barracks bar as a sentinel without charge arge while hie big more fortunate comrades are the ecstasy which cornea comes from per mission to to ramble about the parade ground and tio view ew ibe hotel and other delights of cIvi civilize lIzA atom a distance to don occasion the cadet cadets are given permission call upon d ak the little hotel on the rea res ration if it a boy commits the enor atel aque 0 a raf leaving the main parr oc of the to allt 4 hs fatmir or mother in another a and the act should be discovered he will lever vt aeo the inside of that hotel acain until many WIrt weeke have rolled by and he haa bag expiated the ta ti S rIle by u many extra tours of guard dlly duty ln in ant aier trolling g sun or zero weather or g a highland highlands ji i t 42 A 1 f aa 4 A T wil 1 A va A 41 IV az y all BY CAO erid in an elder day at te at academy ademy and it may be so today to day the mall mail bag into dropped their letters was hung distended mouth just inside the door of the guardhouse until the first call cali for breakfast break fant tho th guardhouse waa was off limit limits the instant the the cadets could could enter the end drop their letters one ono morning a cadet blood stood without the door holding bis his letter in his hands the drum anees raer sticks were poised tremblingly waiting to fall for the pounding out of the first call for breakfast the cadet saw the poised sticks its eit entered ered the guardhouse and dropped bis his fettet ratas the first dote note of the call sounded he fie had passed through the doorway just of a sec ond and too soon an officer saw him mall mail his let ter and a report of off limits I 1 vs went ent in which 4 c caused the unfortunate letter mailer to perform etra guard duty for IS long hours not conseco autive hours however oa on the fit flost book hook on the wall of his alcove tha hang one specific article of clothing riu dh the second secona hook another article and bo go en an it perchance the youth hangs hia his dress dreas coat on the nail sacred to the overcoat he can bid farewell to release from quarters for or two saturdays Batur daya at least and if perchance the shell jacket bangs hangs on the book hook given over to trousers be he may add three more days of confinement ty ter those which have accrued from the crime of 0 the misplaced over coit colt the methodical cadet runs a rard yardstick stick along the toes of 0 the extra shoes which under regula ditora must be placed in regular order beneath the foot of his bed it the toe of one shoe shoo pro trudea half an inch beyond the toe of 0 its I 1 to mate the cadet geta gets one demerit mark if mora more than one pair of shoes shows symptoms symptom a of irregular ity in the matter matte of toeing the scratch the cadet will receive a sufficient number of demerit marks to enable him to realize thoroughly the beauties of a right line as applied to something besides geometry 1 10 it Is a bw beastly tIT grind as an the clergyman said aid but I 1 Is a i ind that has its uses and the proof of it 1 IN written in all alt the records of the service hazing Is in a ense ease an hereditary army officers who nave have been asked in the years that are past and who are belar bein asked today to root out the practice of the plebe at west paint did not and have not all of 0 thara teem their heart hearts in t the he work ork tor for were they adt themselves and were they not in turn mazerat nine out of ten of th hazed will tell you today to day that they profited bw b the experience 1 hen gen ulyssa llly sei simpson grant entered riebe plebe camp a first te lassman nho ho noticed the boys strong build intimated to bim him that it would be a pleasure to have him hint call immediately at the there Is a rule at seniors onto ell tent grant went west point wb A vu waa I 1 a 1 rule in grandes grants dy as t T 1 walk that any cadet who acks iks another to perform any nr menial mental work lor for him shall be dismissed from the service the first c cissman asman knew too much to ask his hi vaitor outright to do any ally thine thing ot at the kind but her here la Is thi IN aay which veracious academy history ay says that be he V enk cut at it U I 1 prestine pre mr grant that you have lived on ft a farm and uch such being the th case you undoubtedly have had rare opportunities to ill I 1 note ote the effect of the une sunt raya rays on certain object objects now it you bad left in the tun sun a water vater bucket that was innocent ot of the retention ol 01 I 1 A single drop of the nula fluid what do you think sar lr boull have been the partle ular effect affect of 0 the san un upon that water bu bucket buck clett tt 11 1 I think aid cadet grant that it auld got et 0 7 warped and leaky very well mr oranti ou show erudition beyond bur our years now it you will look at my water bucket you will eee see that it I 1 Is aa as dry aa as a chip hip by the further ex erd jq of your knowledge and observation alon 1 grant can you tell mo me by what means I 1 may prevent the warping and leaking of my bucket have it filled eaid said grant very good again mr nir grant but pray note what you said have it tilled not flu fill it that necessarily meane means mr grant that some one must nil 1111 it for me you have shown so 10 much acumen that I 1 fear to violate the terme terms of your prescription either in letter or in spirit which I 1 should do if I 1 presumed to carry the bucket to the water tank myself grant filled the bucket A member of the west point class of 1870 now an officer of high rank in active meridee ler ter VIce idee tell tells this etory story about the first day in plebe camp of fred erick drick dent grant eon son of ulysses ad an upper upperclassman classman bent on nothing else also than having some fun with the son sea of the lancas adoue general asked him on bla his advent into camp while be was eull still wearing the clothes at 4 civil we which do you think la Is the greatest man gen lea george washington or gen ulysses S grant freda bred a answer blunt and quick wae was wash washington ing way have been the greater man but my father wa was the greater soldier mr air grant said the upper rl classman assman to compare your father to george washington in any sense la Is like unto the comparios com pariss of a plucked hen to the american eagle then there followed a fight but it waa was stopped almost instanter by some first classmen because the place was too public a gen john 34 schofield wae was an aj artillery artmer officer the army has it that schofield bad had a distaste for the infantry branch because of an experience which he underwent during his first week aa As a plebe at the military academy some yearlings chased Scho fial 4 up tip a ladder from the cock loft of bari barracks acke to taproot the future hero of franklin waa was clad only in a night shirt when ahe rot wa beached the cadets gave scho ficle a rifle marked out but a sentinel sentinels a beat on the tn root and started the ahe future artilleryman on bis his wall walk back bar k and jorth the musket on his shoulder they kept him at it with few intermissions from taps to reveille t W maraian Mar Wian poe waa wax a cadet at west point only for a short time army tradition holds nothing concerning the hazing of poe the academy boweres bo howe ter Is the custodian of at one of poes first boeme chica ie Is nothing of a striking example of the tays wit while poe was at the academy aleut joseph lock was stationed there ae as a tactical officer lock was as the strictest kind of a disciplinarian and he lie was constantly reporting poe for offenses ee report reports which brought aa ar their natural consequence some heavy punishments poo had hia fils revenge in a poem which the curious may and find in a volume called TIc which was published years ago by the cadets cabets john locke was a great name joe lock is a greater in short abort the former s well known to fame the latter well known to report there Is or was one form bt 61 hazing at wes point which has in it ft the essence of cruelty thi this consists in making a plebe read with appropriate gestures ge turca and the proper inflection inflections all the nice things which the newspaper tot of his home tow town U printed about him when the announcement of h his I 1 s appointment to a cadetship cade was made IMP imagine gIne if it you will the feelings of a green youngster ar ap ho he upon a burral read reading ng to an assem assemblage lage of kolbly pol poI bly 60 yearnings year lings the editorial statement of tn local papers that henry smith doubtless doubt lese will be made a corporal as an soon con s aa he the eye eyes of the super in of the academy fall upon his tall and manly figure henry baa has in hira him the making of a gi cicat c at soldier 1 we e shall lit bear ar of his dee deeds ds on the field of battle as a leader of his hosto in ase case dread we hall ball cobe come rv tf P T rf vf I 1 S 1 1 |