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

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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

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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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CATHOLIC CHAI ' FAj This alwai s reminds me of a little English kirk on the top of the kill ' ' and somelhinij else — forget it. It is old, too. built in 1885 by Monsignor O ' Keefe; there is a tablet iiisicle tellinti (ill about it. Doesn ' t it, though, like a little miniature one? — miniature — irhii. all — ; es, no — we can ' t go much farther — just dowti by these other quarters. Ivinly-tight