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Cadetship   Listen
noun
Cadetship  n.  The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cadetship" Quotes from Famous Books



... athlete, a boxer, with far more restlessness of muscle than absorption of mind. He had failed at Harvard, where his great-grandfather had distinguished himself; he had, with the influence of a Congressman, secured a West Point cadetship, and there had fallen under the rapid fire of a battery of mathematics, and had come home scouting at the humiliation which he had put upon his parents, and was now ready to submit himself to any ...
— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read

... already entered the navy, and Lee himself decided upon the army, as his choice of profession. At the age of eighteen he applied for a cadetship at the Military Academy at West Point, and received it direct from President Andrew Jackson himself. There is a tradition that when Lee presented himself before the hero of New Orleans, that doughty Tennessean looked him over from head to ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden

... got bad news to tell you, at least, I feel it to be bad news for me, and I flatter myself that you will feel it to be bad news for you. In short, I am going to leave Roslyn, and probably we shall never meet there again. The reason is, I have had a cadetship given me, and I am to sail for India in September. I have already written to the school to tell them to pack up and send me all my books ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar



Words linked to "Cadetship" :   spot, place, cadet, berth



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