This whole ceremony of dress parade had about it the impressive solemnity of religious worship.
There were yet some more formalities.

Then the young men were marched back.

A few minutes after the sunset gun the men were once more in their own company streets, and, for all cadets except those of the guard, the work day was over.

In the evening there was to be a cadet hop at Cullom Hall, at which many of the bright-faced girls who had watched dress parade would be present.
The evening after there would be a band concert in camp.

So the nights of the cadet summer were passed.
But the hops were not for the plebes.