The faintest hint dropped from the lips of such magnates as the cadet captains or adjutant went from mouth to mouth like wildfire, growing as they flew.
This being a West Point cadet wasn't what it was represented to be by a good deal.
The cadet had still the right to appeal to the superintendent, but if no appeal were made it was posted in the big record books at headquarters, and stands there yet in black and white.
Jennings has just been put in arrest—conduct unbecoming a cadet and a gentleman—and they say it's about your rifle.
The difference between the cadet duels and those of the French fencers or German students appears to be that, though only nature's weapons are allowed, somebody has to be hurt.
Officers of the First Class and cadet staff and first sergeants of the Second Class were the exceptions.
There stood the stern young cadet captain in his tall plume and crimson sash and gold-laced sleeves, astounded at the effrontery of these young yet hardened reprobates.
Each cadet posted his own name in plain block letters over the alcove, over his half of the clothes-press, over his equipments, etc.
The scandal was great at the complaisance of the King in consenting to a family arrangement, by which a cadet was put over the head of his elder brother; but the time of the monsters had arrived.
He came very young to the Court without any fortune, a cadet of Gascony, under the name of the Marquis de Puyguilhem.
One of the majors of the volunteer regiments is a dismissed cadet of my own class, a very stupid and ignorant fellow.
Tower:-- "I roomed with Cadet Stevens for four months in one of the small rooms in the south barracks.
Each cadet was provided with a small mattress, to be spread upon the floor when needed, and when unoccupied to be rolled up in its canvas, well strapped, and put into a corner of the room.
As already stated, Cadet Stevens was put forward by his classmates to deliver this address himself.
Two of the cadet professors will then graduate, and their places will have to be filled.
Phillips, the member representing the South Essex District, by whom he was informed that no cadet had been appointed from Mr. Osgood's district.
LAST TWO YEARS Returning to the Point after this brief respite, the young cadet resumed his studies with his accustomed vigor.
One of the colonels of the new regiments is a dismissed cadet from West Point, and since I graduated.
A cadet inspector visited the rooms half an hour after reveille; the Officer of the day also inspected them, and the company officers also went the rounds.
His success at the academy, his cadet uniform, and his erect, soldierly bearing invested him in the eyes of the community with the new-found respect and importance accorded to rising and promising young manhood.
Although unable to procure the cadet appointment for Oliver, he greatly enjoyed his first visit to the capital, especially the debates in the Senate, where he listened to both Clay and Webster.
When the Academic Board reviewed the standing of the members of the class to award to each his proper grade, it was found that Cadet Stevens stood at the head, not only generally, but in every one of the studies.
Cadet Judson say: "Perhaps if you were to work out a formula in algebra, mister, you would find the idea even more clear.
But the delivery was the very one that Cadet Holmes wanted.
Back of the adjutant stood the cadet officer of the day and Captain Vesey, of the Army, who was the tac.
As Cadet Prescott threw open his door the room was in darkness, hardly any light entering from the hallway.
As he stood in his doorway, looking up at the inscrutable stars, Cadet Captain Reynolds was taking his own lesson in patient waiting.
When they reached the unused room on the top floor of the next subdivision of plebes, they found Cadet Lieutenant Edwards and Mr. Jennison, both of the first class, already on hand.
Then the cadet adjutant, the roll in his hands, began to call the names by companies, holding a pencil in readiness to check down any cadet found absent.
Dazed, Cadet Holmes was saved only by the word from the time-keeper.
Cadet Prescott was alone in their room, boning hard, at about nine that evening, when a member of the cadet guard informed him that he was wanted by the O.
In ten minutes or less, we can have Mr. Spurlock on his way tocadet hospital.
Mr. Prescott, on your word as a cadet and a gentleman, have you told me all you know?
Perhaps it is the ghost of Cadet Bolt that is romping around here once more," suggested a mocking lad.
Each of the cadet players took a handful of this powder and smeared it across his breast, partly renewing the white line.
The cadet band was playing "Fardale's Way," and a great mass of cadets took up the song.
It was only then that the poor, passionate cadet noticed my presence.
I was once a cadet myself, and, in truth, it was the best time of my life!
France, was daughter of a cadet of the house of Savoy, Philip, count of Bresse, afterwards duke of Savoy.
Among his treasures was a medal of honor presented to him by Congress for twice saving the life of Inza Burrage, a pretty girl who lived in Fardale, and whose brother, Walter, was a cadet at the academy.
Well, this is the room in which Cadet Bolt committed suicide.
Each yearling sought to have a particular fag to attend to him and his wishes, and no cadet could demand service of another fellow's fag without danger of bringing about trouble.
I want to know if you actually think I am wicked enough to wish to kill a fellow cadetand classmate?
You are white all the way through, and I believe it is to you I owe credit for still remaining a cadet in this school.
The youngcadet instantly lifted his cap, as he smilingly retorted: "I did not see you there, Miss Burrage.
I have never crowded any fellow, and I have never lost an opportunity to cover as far as possible and honorable any wrongdoing a fellow cadet may have been led into.
The morning of her last day at home, the corps cadet whom she had come to call 'my little Leff,' was with her.
In later years, a corps cadet asked her if, in those days, she never said 'I can't.
The corps cadet continues:-- I thank God for sending her into my life.
Not every cadet who entered training had the grit to go through with it.
But thecadet told him he could read a 'War Cry' even if he did like his beer, but she prayed in her heart that it might be the means of making him hate his beer.
The plan leaves untouched theCadet Barracks, the Cadet Mess, the Memorial Hall, the Library and the Officers' Mess.
The Cadet Chapel=, immediately north of the Administration Building, was erected in 1834.
In the rebuilding of the Post the Cadet Chapel, the Riding Hall, the Administration Building and some of the Officers' Quarters will be removed.
Early in June the court apothecary, Cadet de Gassicourt, had been ordered by the Emperor to prepare an infallible poison.
On the other hand, it is just to note that the brilliant men who have survived the ordeal of jealousy are all at the front, and therefore beyond the reach of cadet schools.
At our school, and at every other cadet school, you can find the cream of intellect studying for commissions.
He made the young cadet a spy upon his son, giving him money for taking Roland to the gaming-table, tempting him to high play, and then making an exact report of his behavior.
The Cadet invited Roland to go with him to the theatre that evening, to see a grand ballet.
The Cadet told him that he had been made an ensign, and should soon make him a visit, with some of his comrades.
Roland had asked that Eric might go too, but the Cadet explained that there were no more places to be had; it was with great difficulty that he had been able to secure one for his friend.
The Cabinetsraethin leaned in the most friendly way on Sonnenkamp's arm; Pranken escorted Frau Ceres; Roland and the cadet shot arrows at a target, Roland always hitting the bull's eye.
Eric, by this means, alienated not only Herr Sonnenkamp and the Cabinetsraethin, but also for a time his pupil himself, who was out of humor and refractory, after the cadet had returned to the capital.
A cadet entering the Britannia under 14 years of age, would be rejected from the Service if he failed to pass the fourth quarterly examination after his entrance.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Seymour relates (in My Naval Career) that as a cadet he often talked with Master-Commander G.
He entered the Navy in 1788, as a "first-class Volunteer," as a naval cadet was then called.
The captain of the Britannia was Robert Harris, to whom the Service owes the inestimable benefit of cadettraining ships.
Harris, who represented Great Britain with so great ability and resource, gives an excellent account in his book, From Naval Cadet to Admiral.
So he brought me a cadet appointment when he came home, and said he believed a boy with that record could get through West Point, the training there being, in his opinion, a good preparation for the study of law.
Near the beginning of the last year of my cadet life an event occurred which very nearly proved fatal to my prospects, and I have often wondered that it did not have some effect on my hopes.
The result of that investigation fully sustained the finding of Colonel Lazelle, that the colored cadet himself was the guilty person.
My experience at West Point did not differ in many particulars from the general average of cadet life, but a few incidents may be worthy of special mention.
Lazelle, led him to the conclusion that the other cadets had no knowledge whatever of the outrage, and that the colored cadet himself was guilty.
William's cadet experience was somewhat more eventful, for the reason that the spirit of mischief was more dominant with him at that time than with his brothers.
He also attracted the notice of a relative, Commodore Joseph Smith of the Navy, afterwards admiral, who took measures to have the boy entered as a cadet at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Blunt observing it, went to the commanding officer and told him that the cadet had nineteen pistoles in his pocket, and it was a shame the French should have them.
Some in civilian's dress; some in cadet clothes, with the black stripe torn off the leg; all eager for their work.
