People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Grant's Demerits as a Cadet. [ARTICLE]

Grant's Demerits as a Cadet.

Grant’s page of demerits at West Point shows scarcely a single mark for any real offense against good conduct. They are mainly “lates” and negligences. He was “late at church/’ “late at parade, ” ‘ ‘late at drill. ” He was a growing boy and a little sluggish of a morning no donbt. Once he sat down on his post between 6 and 6 in the morning. For this he received eight demerits. Twice in his second year as squad marcher he failed to report delinquencies in others and received five demerits each time. His amiability led to this. Once *' he spoke disrespectfully to his superior officer on parade. The provocation must have been very great to have led to this. The probabilities are the officer was mistaken.—-Hamlin Garland in McClure’s Magazine.