The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-07
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Dr.. Boyle Tells Of the Pleasant.
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DR.. Boyle in.the course ofsa CONVEX
sation told something Of his personal
experience relative to the United
States naval academy at Annapolis.
He told OF how, when he was q stu
dent In normal college In Kansas,
he passed an examination, and re-
ceived an appointment to the naval
academy. It was an even of which he
had never dreamed; and at first it
seemed only an hallucination.
A month before the school opened,
he started for Annapolis, to enter the
I prep" school, and to prepare for the
final entrance examination.
He there met other candidates, who
were at Annapolis for q similar pur-y
pose. They had all heard stories
about the cadets; but owing to the
vacation, which was then on, there
was none to be seen about the acad-
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'aOne day." the doctor said, my
/ Wisconsin friend and / were walking
along the street when we met youth
in blue clothes, who stopped ,us and
: began q conversation.
What's your name2 the cadet
showled at me in his overbearing man
Sner. replied ambiguous. enough,
Which? At this he swore some pic
turesQue oaths, and concluded, iii bat
hell Outtof you after get you In the
academy
Hazing we learned to speak of as
running. We also learned that 1t was
considered right and proper to take
in good spirit light form Of running,
such as saying, Yes SIR and no sir
to our superiors.
Zone day was coming, across the
grounds by myself, and met a big
cadet. He stopped me, and asked my
name. told him, and he said, DO
you think you'll take running after
YOU. get In? Oh said, I guess Til
take about what they give me- Look
here, SIR he said, you must be more
'circumspect in your language to me-
Different candidates began to re-
port at the prep school with tales of
cadets coming to their rooms in the
evening. going through various tales
of running. A Pennsylvania candidate
had to stand on his head on a twO-by-
four plank until his prosecutors were
through with him. One boy had to eat
q piece of soap; another drink some
ink. The favorite running was to get
two candidates down on the floor and
have a rolling contest. The candidates
would lie PROSTATE along the opposite
walls, and then, at the cadets COM
mand, roll rapidly towards the bed, to
see which could roll under it first.
The slow one would be penalized by
standing on his head, chewing up
paper wads and counting them, or
other humiliating stunts Candidates
refusing to do these things were SIM
ply booked to fight out the matter in
a fist fight, after they entered the
academy. A light-hearted candidate
from New York city, told me that he
had six. fights engaged when he got
IN. A stalwart cowboy candidate from
Arizona, had two fights engaged for
his first week at the academy.
aAs candidates we soon became ia
miliar with the history Of the. cadet,
who was taken from his roo one win
ter night and held under stream Of
cold water from a pump, and from the
effects Of which he died few weeks
later.
ION the first Of September the first
examination was given. 1t was very
severe; and only thirty out Of one
hundred passed. l was among the
lucky number. Then followed the
physical examination, which was very
rigid. About every fourth or fifth boy
In the physical examination was being
rejected. ss
After a weeks waiting my turn
came. The doctor told me to strip
and come in. l cannot say that they
took me to pieces and put me together
again, but they certainly did come as.
near to It as they could. Some test
was applied to every organ Of the
body. Every joint of every finger and
toe was tested
The result Of this long examination
was written, sealed In q long envelope
and given me to deliver at the COM
smandants' Office. There It was opened
and my fate, good or bad, was an
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