"We've some boning of our own to do before the call sounds for supper formation." Before the battalion of cadets marched to supper, through the heavy storm that night, the news of Dick Prescott's inspiration had traveled pretty firmly through the yearling class.
It is against all West Point traditions to make a hero of a plebe.
Not a word of congratulation came to Cadet Prescott.

It wouldn't even save the young man from being the victim of a lot of hazing pranks, for these inflictions were deemed necessary to the plebe's training.

None the less, the incident, as it became known, caused the impression to spread that Cadet Prescott was a good fellow and that he was likely to prove a credit to the grand old United States Military Academy.
Hazing a thing of the past at West Point! The War Department and the authorities at the Military Academy have done all they could, and will continue to do all in their power to stamp out hazing.
Since the Congressional investigation in the early years of the present century, much has been done to cut down the rigor of hazing at West Point.

General Mills stamped out much of it with iron vigor.

Colonel Scott dealt many hard blows to the system.
Other officers have bent their energies to the same problems.