Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for Flag and Honor
1911
Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for Flag and Honor
1911
In the summer of his third year at West Point, Dick Prescott returns home on leave as a changed man. The cadet who left town as a boy has come back taller, stricter, and bearing the weight of an honor code that civilians barely understand. His mother introduces him to the new pastor's wife with pride, but Mrs. Davidson finds herself lost for words - how do you talk to one of those mysterious young men from the Academy? The warmth of homecoming sours quickly when Dick discovers his old nemesis, Bert Dodge, has surfaced in town. When Dodge levels dark accusations against him, the cadet's entire future at West Point hangs in the balance. Dick must stand firm not with fists, but with proof of his integrity. This is early twentieth-century juvenile fiction at its most engaging: a story about what it means to live by a code when no one around you fully comprehends it, and about the terrible fragility of a reputation built over years - threatened in a single moment by a determined enemy.
