United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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'97's last ear. T high noon, june 12th, 1896, we sailed through the golden gate which had been our goal for three long, wearisome years, and found ourselves on the pacitic sea of First-classdoni. How wonderful it seemed! Our -feelings were similar to those of the all-confident Plebe Qbefore he has entered the west sally-port? and we had that large, elevating sensation of conscious greatness and 81 hat which a newly-fledged corporal ex- periences when he sprouts hisuglittering pin feathers. The hampering barracks could not. long contain us, and, after due delibera- tion, it was decided by the authorities to take us into Camp Hooker, where we might have all out doors to move about in. - 1 But how soon do our fondest anticipations come to naught! We all too quickly found that there was more pain than pleasure in the dazzling charm, and, like moths with singed wings, we settled down to the commonplace. Although we rode in the Hrst-class carriage, we found that its wheels turned in the same old rut. Q Of course camp had its diversions, but all through the game, where we pre- ferred hearts, we found our hands full of spades, and enough holes were dug in Fort C1int:on,'fi11ed up, and redug, to make, if continuous,.a short cut to the Antipodes, and always there was the pontoon bridge-of sighs. ' Our morning rides and their attendant elocutionary treats were the inspira- tion which threw us headlong into the capture of Cro' Nest and Long Pond, and far into the night the nioping owl and cooingidove might have been heard T4