The following is from pages 53 and 54 of WEST POI
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The following is from pages 53 and 54 of WEST POINT 1915 - Eisenhower, Bradley, and the Class the Stars Fell On by Michael E. Haskew.
The affable Eisenhower soon became popular among his fellow cadets and was known as "Ike," a nickname he had heard for years in Kansas that his mother detested. He found plenty of mischief and always took great delight in it. During his plebe year, Eisenhower and a fellow cadet Layson Atkins of California, known to the Corps as Tommy, were called to account for an infraction. Corporal E. E. Adler ordered the two plebes to report to his room at the end of the day in "full dress coats." Eisenhower remembered:
Tommy suggested that we obey the literal language of the order.... The full dress coat is a cutaway with long tails in the back, and tailored straight waist in front. At the appointed time, each of us donned a full-dress coat and with no other stitch of clothing, marched to the corporal's room. We saluted and said solemnly, "Sir, Cadets Eisenhower and Atkins report as ordered."
The sound Corporal Adler let out was the cry of a cougar. While his roommate, a rather easygoing man named L.T. Byrne, became convulsed with laughter, the Corporal was transformed into a picture of outraged dignity."
The two unruly plebes were made to report later in full uniforms, including their rifles, and were braced against the barracks wall until, remembered Eisenhower, "we left our bodily outlines on it in perspiration. But aferward, we and the other plebes had a lot of laughs-quietones-out of Adler's temporary discomfiture."
The affable Eisenhower soon became popular among his fellow cadets and was known as "Ike," a nickname he had heard for years in Kansas that his mother detested. He found plenty of mischief and always took great delight in it. During his plebe year, Eisenhower and a fellow cadet Layson Atkins of California, known to the Corps as Tommy, were called to account for an infraction. Corporal E. E. Adler ordered the two plebes to report to his room at the end of the day in "full dress coats." Eisenhower remembered:
Tommy suggested that we obey the literal language of the order.... The full dress coat is a cutaway with long tails in the back, and tailored straight waist in front. At the appointed time, each of us donned a full-dress coat and with no other stitch of clothing, marched to the corporal's room. We saluted and said solemnly, "Sir, Cadets Eisenhower and Atkins report as ordered."
The sound Corporal Adler let out was the cry of a cougar. While his roommate, a rather easygoing man named L.T. Byrne, became convulsed with laughter, the Corporal was transformed into a picture of outraged dignity."
The two unruly plebes were made to report later in full uniforms, including their rifles, and were braced against the barracks wall until, remembered Eisenhower, "we left our bodily outlines on it in perspiration. But aferward, we and the other plebes had a lot of laughs-quietones-out of Adler's temporary discomfiture."
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