Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point

West Point #1

by H. Irving Hancock, 1st World Library (Editor)

How do you feel, Dick! As spruce as you did an hour ago! Candidate Greg Holmes put the question with a half-nervous laugh. He spoke in a whisper, too, as if to keep his agitation from reaching the notice of any of the score or more of other young men in the room of Mr. Ward, the aged notary at West Point. "I'll be glad when I see some daylight through the proceedings," Dick Prescott whispered in answer. "I'm glad they allow us to talk here in undertones," pursued Greg. "If we weren't allowed to do so, some of us would go suddenly crazy, utter a whoop and spring through one of the windows," grinned Dick.

Genres: Childrens

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1910

About the author

Harrie Irving Hancock (January 16, 1868 - March 12, 1922) was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the USA.

Reviews

[CLM · Rating 4 out of 5]

I adored this (dated) series about handsome and upstanding cadet Dick Prescott who attends West Point while his best friend Dave Darrin enrolls Annapolis.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book covering four books about two school mates, Dick Prescott and Greg Holmes and their four years at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Light reading about their times and trials at the Academy and how two mid-western American Boys could do no wrong.