Excerpt from Cadet Days a Story of West Point

"Pops, there"s no use talking; we"ve simply got to send you to the Point."

"I"m sure I wish you could, Colonel. Father"s tried every way he could think of, but cadetships don"t go a-begging - out here, at least. The President has only one or two "at large" appointments this year, and there were over a thousand applications for them."

"Well, have you tried Mr. Pierce, the Congressman for this district?"

"Oh, yes, sir, tried him long ago. He was very polite - Congressmen always are. He asked me to go round and get all the signatures to my application I possibly could, and kept me running for six weeks or so. Then he gave it to Mr. Breifogle"s son."

Colonel Belknap smiled.

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