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

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m ' to Biker Dress Rehearsal on — stunned — as Penn tied untied Armv on the Grid- graph and raised the roof at Yankee Stadium from open- ing whistle to dosing gun while the Irish postponed for another year the terrible defeat we ' d hoped so hard to hand ' em. Navy proved another, greater disappoint- ment, with class and Corps split in the stands though one in spirit . . . By now, anyway, autumn had become winter, and the nearness of Christmas had captured our hearts, minds, and imaginations. PICTURES: Our river home The great sack.

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Settled, hv now, more or less comtortablv in barricks — having exchanged fieldwork for brainwork — we man- aged to find free hours to spend enjoying our still new upperclass privileges. Dragging to shows and hops, learning our way around the Lower Walk, boodlin ' up at Scottv ' s, and two-stepping it in the paint and canvas- covered Thayer ballroom made life considerably more tolerable. The zip in the air that presaged another Siber- ian winter turned our thoughts to football . . . We cheered as Army took Villanova, Temple, and Colgate — sweltered in overcoats going up to Baker Field in New York subways and watched the Lions hold us to fiftv-two points before it rained. We looked

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Fall, winter, spring, an J summer West Point weekends varied much in activities but little in schedule. From the meeting at Grant after s. i. till re-embarkation in Sunday twilight at the bus stop, all our weekends followed a familiar pattern. Saturday afternoon, if not spent watching a game, a match, or a meet, if not passed on Flirty or enjoyed at Delafield, was usually whiled awav in the Boodler ' s or at the hotel. Saturday night shows and hops went quicklv, and pro-ies and o-ies warranted three X ' s and a five-minute mile. Sunday morning was full of sack and funnies and Chapel, while afternoon dragging to a show, con- cert, tea-hop, or lecture, or just dragging filled the hours till train, bus, or taxi time. The weekends were much the same, but like the femmes we shared ' em with, we loved ' em ;: