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Show West Pointers Never Smile. Now, strange as it may seem, smiling is something totally against the rules. No man ever dreams of smiling at anything, any-thing, no matter how ludicrous, when he has been in the West Point academy a few weeks. The face is required to have a stony, expressionless etare, the eyes fixed as if in a trance, gazing on futurity. The head is thrown back, the arms held rigidly, the body straight, and this is the attitude of "attention," which is expected ex-pected to be -she normal condition of a cadet, except when speaking with his own or with lower classmen. Cor. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times. |