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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d telegraphy by which telegraphwires are rapidly connected and communication es-tablished with the General on a battle field. Somelearn signaling with red and white flags, from onepart of a field to another; the words being formed bythe waving of the flags. This is a very pretty drill.Sometimes at night a party of cadets ascend to FortPutnam, which is an old revolutionary ruin on one ofthe hills, and signal with lanterns which they swingand wave in the same manner. Another party sta-tioned on the plain beneath respond to the signals. And so the busy days pass. During the last weeks of the encampment there areafternoon Battalion Drills which require the attend-ance of the entire corps. Of course there are many opportunities for recrea-tion and amusement. In the summer, at least, thetheory is advanced that all work and no play isimpolitic, and cadets are permitted to leave Camp formost enchanting strolls through Flirtation, escort-ing pretty girls along the shady path by the river. If16
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Cadet Life at West Point. the ghost of Kosciusko ever listens by the fountainin his favorite garden, how much sentiment, or asa cadet would say, spoony talk, he must hear! Monday and Thursday nights are Hop Nights,and as cadets are usually fine dancers these hops areheld in high favor, and attract the youth and beautyfrom the surrounding country. They begin at halfpast eight and end promptly at half past ten, whenthe loud roll of a drum in the corridor puts a suddentermination to the most enchanting waltz and thedancers disperse. Darkness and absolute quiet soquickly succeed that one would fancy it had all beena fairy scene vanishing at the tap of a wand. Band practice in Camp is another source of delight.When the moon is at the full, and the earth is floodedwith soft, radiant light, the old trees cast deepshadows across the grassy plain. Up and down, keep-ing step involuntarily to the sweet music, move thegray-coated figures, each accompanied by his own, ormayhap, some others sister,

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