As they have for 70 years, students at the United States Naval Academy celebrated the end of their first year by scaling a 21-foot obelisk, the Herndon Monument. In the past, it often took hours for plebes to hoist a peer on their shoulders to place an officer’s hat atop the obelisk.
On Monday, to make the tradition safer, the obelisk was not greased with lard, and plebes scaled it in two minutes and five seconds. (NYT)
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