Yet neither Judson nor
Pratt showed any intention of giving the command to stop.
Suddenly a quick step was heard in the hallway outside.
Anyone who has been at the Military Academy as long as had Pratt
and Judson knew the meaning of that particular, swift step.
One of the "tacs.," as the tactical officers are called, was making
an unscheduled tour of inspection. For an upper class man to be
caught hazing, or for a plebe to be caught submitting, was equally
dangerous to either yearling or plebe! It might mean dismissal.
CHAPTER VII
A SUDDEN GRIND AT MATH.
Had Dick's been the first door opened six cadets would have been
instantly in serious trouble.
Fortunately the door across the corridor was the first to be opened,
and the six on this side of the hallway heard another cadet's voice
call quietly:
"Attention!"
It was, therefore, a tactical officer making an inspection.
At the United States Military Academy the superintendent, who
has the local rank of colonel, is at the head of this government
institution in all its departments.
Discipline, however, and training in tactics, comes within the
especial province of another officer, known as the commandant of
cadets, who ranks locally as a lieutenant-colonel, and who gets in
closer touch with the cadet corps.
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