Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point; Or, Two Chums in the Cadet Gray

opened six cadets would have be

irst to be opened, and the six on this side of the

enti

a tactical officer

nt, who has the local rank of colonel, is at the head

ince of another officer, known as the commandant of cadets, who ranks locall

ke upon themselves the numerous duties of which the commandant has oversight. These subordinate

e of the commandant, which is in cadet headquarter's bu

officially designated as the "officer in charge." Among the cadets he is privately referred to

and himself a graduate of West Point, is to make sudden, unexpecte

be only to one subdivision, or even to a single floor or room of one subdivision. Yet record must be kept

lace, or any undress or untidiness on the part of a cadet, constitutes a breach of discipline, and must be reported a

through the present flying inspection will never be known. If h

he d

dson to retreat unseen. The door across the hall had been left o

disordered bedding, swiftly folding over the mattress,

udson, whispering in that yearling's

, sir, won't you please come to

one end of the table. Judson snatched up one of Dick's mathematical textbooks, opening to one of the fir

stood on either side of him. Pratt began rapidly to sketch o

o be looking in that direction. As Captain Vesey, the tac., white-glov

algebra, mister, you would find the idea even

k you," replied

r. Pratt, to Greg and Anstey. Just at that instant the ye

of the tac., who stood looking on

" called Pr

o do so. Six young men who looked intensely ea

d to find anything wrong, Captain Vesey took two steps int

," uttered Yearling

e in a while, if you n

sir," murmured Cadet

now, Pratt?"

ing back to my own b

at

o thank plebes for a service such as had just been ren

O.C.'s office. "Mr. Judson and Mr. Pratt have a pretty bad reputation for hazing. And yet, when I come upon them, it

nny, Prescott!" uttered

at?" asked

were just about c

es

a flash. So when the tac. pops in here, he finds those most es

demanded

at yearling couple to pull thei

means, if I can help it of having any man kicked out of

, just the same

back to our room," broke in Anstey. "We've some boning of

e heavy storm that night, the news of Dick Prescott's inspir

being the victim of a lot of hazing pranks, for these inflictions were deemed necessary to the plebe's training. None the less, the incident, as it became know

the authorities at the Military Academy have done all they coul

al Mills stamped out much of it with iron vigor. Colonel Scott dealt many hard blows to the system. Other officers have bent their energies to the same

g wholly in an institution where hazing has been one of the

it is less brutal. Yet hazing, in one form or another, will doubtless continu

st Point, the yearlings, or second-year men, who do most of the hazing, have developed new forms of the ancient s

hievous hazing are retained. Where "necessary" new hazes are employed that a

ock Exchange. Even in the United States Senate there are recognized ways of hazing a

bolish hazing utte