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

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;, Foreword It has been the sincere purpose of the Howitzer Board to present in this volume a picture of the Cadet Hfe that the Class of 1929 has known d to furnish a record that will help them the friendships, the joys and the cares that this formative period of their military career has furnished. Text has been elimi- nated wherever possible— pictures being substituted in its stead. an reca

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-, V ' fi ' =1 (1 77 Y. ' ' ■■ • - ' V West Toint By C. T. Lanham ; O Spartan Woman, I have peered behind Your stoic pose and found the Mother there At hist: the proud gray eyes, the cool gray hair, ' The tender face a hundred years have lined - ' , ' V With sorrow for the still, straight sons returned , Upon their blameless shields, the quiet pride That they had lived by you, went forth and died ' The Doric Way. Gray Mother, they have earned Those shields and havmg justified the trust You placed in them, they come again to live --,. And breathe as part of you. To-day you give A burnished shield to me, to guard from rust. . . . To hold before my heart . . . and bid me go. . . 1918. Harper Brorhci 1 Harper ' s Magizir