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

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THE LIBRARY Yea, it is squatty looking and odd, but don ' t you think it is comfortaljle looking, too. ' It surely is on the inside — nice big easy chairs where you ran toke a book and read in real solitudf and quiet. Built in 181+ and they hare been adding l)Ooks and other library stuff to it ever since until non- yon ran find anything conceivable in it — have heard that they have almost 100,000 books and periodicals in it. and included in that is one of the best military libraries in the world vith relics and such stuff around to make it took real comfortable.

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RIDIXO IIALL GATE Yes, I ' m awfully glad you came up, Dorothy, and since it ' s your first time I hope it will be interesting enough to make you xcant to come again. Sure, we ' ll walk around a hit. Do you know sometimes a fellow gets lone- some up here — just like 1 was when 1 entered through that gate for the first time. I suppose I will hare the same feeling when I go through it for the last time, too — sort of lost something-like; I know I hare had it irhen I was going through it to Biding several times. I Mi Mi,

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CULLUM MEMORIAL HALL Never have been in that while brick building — thai is Ike Officers ' Mess and taboo for Kaydeis, but this one nert to it is Cullum Hall. Yes, tonight for the hop. The name? Oh. it comes from Gen. Cullum, who gave the building as a memorial to the officers and graduates — see, it says ' that across the top there. I don ' t know where those old guns came from — funny inscriptions all over them. I suppose Ihcy were captured in one of our early wars. Why, sure, if the door is open. If, Iltlai ' Mil fiilftlefn I itwwmiiiiimui im imiii II