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56TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I REPORT
2d Session. No. 2768.
INVESTIGATION OF HAZING AT THE UNITED STATES
MILITARY ACADEMY.
FEBRUARY 9, 1901.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mr. DiCK, from the special committee appointed under House reso-
lution 307, passed December 11, 1900, providing, among other
things, for an investigation of hazing at the United States Military
Academy at Westpoint, in the State of New York, submits the fol-
lowing unanimous
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 14127.]
Mr. Diox, from the special committee appointed under House reso-
lution 307, passed December 11, 1900, providing, among other things,
for an investigation of hazing at the United States Military Academy
at Westpoint, in the State of New York, submits the following unan-
imous report:
The committee began the taking of testimony at Bristol, Pa., on
January 4, 1901 and the hearings continued at Bristol, Philadelphia,
Westpoint, and Washington until January 24, 1901.
The committee substantially confined its inquiries to the time since
June, 1897, when the present senior or first class entered the Academy.
During all of this period new cadets have been placed in barracks in
June and have remained there until July, when they have gone into
camp and remained there until late in August, when they returned to
barracks. While in barracks before going into camp they have been
denominated by the up p er-class men as beasts and their quarters
called beast barracks. After the new cadets have moved from bar-
racks to camp they have been styled plebeians or plebes, and
this has continued until received into full fellowship at the end of the
first year. While the fourth-class men have been in barracks before
camp they have been instructed by the upper-class men officially in
charge of them that they must always obey all orders given them by
upper-class men. The upper-class men at the Academy are all substan-
tialy on a social equality, but a great gulf divides them from the
fourth class.
The upper-class men have gradually evolved an entire code of unwrit-
ten laws governing their relations with fourth-class men, as well as the
whole course of conduct which should be pursued by the latter. Under
this code no friendships are formed between the upper-class men and
the lower-class men; they have no social intercourse or relations. Except
where the parties have been acquainted before entering the Academy,
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