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Dick Prescott’s First Year at West Point

CHAPTER XVI
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In the afternoon these second class men swelled the ranks of the battalion and went through, with all the old-time fervor, the grand old ceremony of dress parade.
That night came the "Show." This annual show at the end of August may be either the Camp Illumination or the Color Line Entertainment.

This year the class presidents had asked for the latter.
As soon as dark came on, the Color Line--the central line through cadet camp--blazed out with lights.

Soon after the band began to play gayly.

Hundreds of visitors, most of them women, and the majority quite young women, flocked to camp.

Along the color line the guns of the battalion were stacked.


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