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

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- -T T . ' X ' i V f •wi : i« ' ' ' ' - ' ! VV ,. ? - .• ,Vl V ' ANDIDATES . •i from all 48 states, and then some ... by train, car, and bus we came . . . doctor ' s sons . . . farmer ' s sons . . . flankers, runts . . . some only weeks out of high school . . . some war veterans . . . some college students . . . we had arrived. Wait right here.Susie, I ' ll just run in and register and be right out so we can get in a few hours at the swimming pool before I report to the house mother. And tennis racket in hand we walked through the archway and . . . Drop that bag . . . Sir, New Cadet Smith reports to the First Sergeant of Fifth New Cadet Com- pany for the seventh time as ordered. We had planned to meet Susie in Grant Hall later that afternoon . . . .; t k wy -i.- - y

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- mi P ' T ' ' t. the United States Military Academy ... by act of Congress authorized strength 2496 Cadets . . . founded at the suggestion of General George Washington as an object of primary importance to this country. . . . formally established in 1802 . . . reorganized in 1817 by Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, the Father of the Military Academy . . . the home of such men as Grant, Lee, Pershing, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Bradley, Ridgway, Taylor, and Twining . . .

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