CHAPTER XI.
HOW CADET DODGE HELD POST NUMBER THREE In the early days of the month of June, came all the glories of Commencement.
The first class graduated, and went forth to receive their commissions in the Regular Army.
The second class became the new first class, and head and arbiters of all personal affairs in the battalion of cadets.
The yearlings now became second class men, and departed on their summer furlough, to last until the latter part of August.
The old plebes moved up a peg, also, and became the new yearlings, vested with all the power of hazing and otherwise oppressing and training the plebes.
But for the new plebes--what?
They were plebes just as much as ever, and would be until the following June.
The day after the graduating class had departed, and the late yearlings had followed in their trail, as the furloughed new second class, what was left of the battalion marched forth out of barracks into camp.
Here under the khaki-colored tents what was left of the battalion settled down to the life of the soldier in the field.
An untrained eye might not have noticed much in the arrangement of the camp.

However, the tents of the main camp were arranged along six company streets.

There was also the larger tent of the tactical officer in charge, the guard-tent, and some other tents used in the administration of camp-life.
Now, every text-book was laid aside for the summer.

Instruction during camp period was to be in the practical duties that belong to the soldier's life.
The new first class mourned the loss of a few members who had been "found"-- that is, who had failed in their studies just before Commencement.

More than a score had been dropped from the new yearling class.