officers who are reduced to ranks.

"A cold case."--A sure thing, a foregone conclusion.

To "get chevrons."--To receive an appointment in the
battalion organization. Each year, on the day the
graduates receive their diplomas, and just after--
possibly just before--they are relieved from further
duty at the Academy, the order fixing the appointments
for the next year is read, and those of the year
previous revoked. It has been customary to appoint the
officers, captains, and lieutenants from the first
class, the sergeants from the second, and the corporals
from the third. This custom has at times, and for
reasons, been departed from, and the officers chosen as
seemed best.

For any offence of a grave nature, any one who has
chevrons is liable to lose them, or, in other words,
to be reduced to ranks.

"A cit."--Any citizen.

"To crawl over."--To haze, generally in the severest
manner possible.

"A chapel."--An attendance at church.

"To curse out."--To reprimand, to reprove, and also
simply to interview. This expression does not by any