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

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BATTERY SCHOFIELD I tlioiKjht till ' s ime thing, too — lots of protection — but tlu ' if onli ii.ye the battery for drill. ? o, only 6-inch (funs — disappearing. See, when they want to fire them they rise up over the parapet there in front and then the shock of the discharge sends them, back the way they are now to l e reloaded. That little huildiny there to right? Oh, that ' s tchere all the data c ' lmes to shoot them — lot of interesting jvnk in there — plotting board.i, transits, etc. — all for use in the Coast. twenty -six

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THE HOTEL And Iheii put i ' ' ■ ' « cupola? Nice place, all riffht, but that is (inhj one of the hardships. Why, do you know the hotel was built in 18-29? .Inst think of all the other femmes who have stayed there. Grant ' s, Sher- )nan ' s, Lee ' s, Pershing ' s, and you, too. It ' s all right, though — old-fashioned, moybe — but we do need a new one — every year a rutnor gets started that they are going to build one. but they never do. ♦ • ♦ Qh. thanks! Why, surely, I ' ll be over right after retreat — I ' ll hurry so ve can get in first. twenty-five

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PROFKSSORS ROW yU-e, quiet street, isn ' t it? Oh, no; only the heads of the departments, at least most of them, live alonij here. ♦ ♦ Well, no, I won ' t be living ill anything like that for a long time yet. You see, they form the Atiulemic Board — decide all big questions as to policy of the instruction and the course here. They also make out all the e.vams and things like that — have a bill bluff on some of us. twentii-seven