Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
GLOSSARY IS PUBLISHED
Vocabulary Embraces Nearly a Hun.
dred Weird Expressions.
B. A. HAS A NEW MEANING
It Stands for "Busted Aristocrat."
"Growley," "Bonoid" and "Skag"
Are Popular Words.

Are Popular Words.
| There is but one West Point, one
United States Military Academy, one
United States Corps of Cadets on
earth, and when that is said 1t means
much more than an obvious statement
of identity. 1t means to every faith
full graduate a realization that car
ries thrill; a vivid memory dear to
his heart: a pride that uplifts his soul;
| compelling influence that molds his
standards and controls his will; a
brotherhood of obligation, Of service,
OF lofty ideals, and of simple rectitude.
1t means, in their Incompatible
beauty of changing seasons. the Hud-
son Highlands that have echoed the
| reveille and retreat of continental or
| cadet for nigh century and half;
+, the emerald plain that has felt the
sacred feet of Washington, and where.
| since then, have trOdden the heroes of
hundred desperate fields-Grant, Lee,
Sherman, Jackson and all the tribe of
battle who learned their trade upon
| Its velvet surface: the battlemented
buildings: the weary grind. the joy
GUS girl of the many twinkling feet;
our 'prOfs'' and "tacs.'' our ''fesses
and skins" our hopes and fears. and
with all and above all-'"The Corps
and The Corps and The Corps"
| This from the Howitzer Of 1910. the
year book of the graduating class of the
United States Military Academy at West
Point. 1t is practically the Introduction
to the HowitZer, which is about to be
made public at West Point by the class
of 1910, the members of which class will
become second lieutenants in the regular
army one week from next Wednesday.
One of the best things in the Howitzer
of 1910 will be THE West Point Hero"
story in two parts. The first is the
hero as the novelist paints him, and
the second is he hero las he really is ="
Here is the cadet as the novelist would
have us know him:
As He Is Painted.
Harold De Ducrot. son Of widowed
mother. tolls like fiend and sells news
papers until he has paid his way through
college. He has military aspirations. and
stands a competitive examination for
West Point. Out Of eco competitors he
stands highest and is admitted to the
academy. He is regarded in a strange
light by all of the upper classmen be-
cause he is SO military, and in his plebe
camp he ticks two or three big yearlings
who try to haze him. Coming to barracks
after his plebe camp he bones like the
deuce and he comes out ninth in a class
of ITO, and is made 10th Corp.
After a rather uneventful yearling year
he is made third ranking LIST Sergeant
and goes on furlough standing seventh in
his class. He falls in love on furlough
and returns to the academy and cuts
all hops. Soon his first class camp ap-
proaches. and on the morning of the
graduation of the class above him he
hears the adjatant read: To be cap
tains, cadets Ducrot,' etc. He steals
away from the crowds of admirers that
would fain carry him around on their
of the crowd and slips his hand into that
of a plainly but neatly dressed matron
I'm first class year he Is wonder,
He is captain OF the foot ball team ana
beats every team that plays his. He
works like a Spartan until June approach
es and then he goes up and draws the
first sheepskin. He meets little girl
outside Of Collum Hall and is greeted by
words that we are not permitted to near
HE leaves the academy with the rep Of
being the finest athlete and the most
soldiery cadet and the most popular gink
that ever went through it,
As He Really Is.
BILLY B. Damn is the son of politi-
clan, and his old man appoints him to
West Point; he props in the Falls, and
barely passes his entrance exams. In
Beast barracks he works like all other
plebes, and goes into his plebe camp
with the rep of being pretty B. j. On
one of his plebe guard tours his gun is
taken away from him, and he is thrown
over the parapet. In spite of this and
various other innocent pranks that are
PLAYED on him he does not lick any
yearlings.
ION his plebe practice march he gets
oft 70
starts on September l to walk the area.
He smokes skags occasionally, getting
his papers at the boOdlers; he bones at
night until tattoo and goes to bed. Ills
plebe Christmas finds him turned out In
Math and B. s., but he passes his exams.
During the holidays he beats it out to
the Falls and gets hived-three months.
When the makes are read out in June
his name is not fifth or even thirtieth;
nay. nay. Philander, for the TAGS have
him on their black list. His yearling
camp is series of buck guard tours and
Doodle fights. and his yearling Christmas
finds his spirits at the lowest ebb, for
Pechols has nearly ruined him. He
spring piping furlough when he ought to
be drawing his map. He has ten-day
stay back. but finally goes on furlough
but he doesn't cut any hops on that ac-
count. On the contrary, he goes to all
feed hops.
He loses his second class Xmas leave
by 10 dement's and goes into first class
camp wearing buck chevrOns in spite OF
the fact that there are about 80 makes
and acting makes i'm his class. He doesn't
go to any hops in his first class camp
but is on hand in blouse at every con-
cert. About this time his furlough fem
policies him. and he runs in some booze
and gets tanked. but not hived.
I'm his first class year he dead-beats a
good deal-unnatural for first class man
and is usually i'm the third grade. lie
never stands in with the TAGS: but,
strange to say. this doesn't cause him to
lose sleep. When graduation finally
comes he is pretty near the goat end.
and is a clean sleever through and
through: but in spite of all his faults the
corps of cadets makes a pretty good
racket when he draws his diploma and
beats it for N. Y"
A glance at the above indicates that
West Pointers have language of their
own. and for this reason the editors OF
the Howitzer have provided THE Clos
sary," which tells what the strange
sounding words mean.
The Glossary.
A. B., Area Bird-An individual walk
ing punishment tours. in the area. A
cadet on exhibition sentinel duty.
Area-The courtyard Of old barracks
The foul yard.
b. A., Busted Aristocrat-One reduced
to ranks.
B-Ache-To complain. to talk-To SUBJ
init an official communication to com. or
supe.