Ahh yes, thankfully, I have managed to get another week in April fully repaired so I have come close to getting all of the previous posts back up and running after the problem with image hosting.
And I'm so sorry for my delay in getting a new post online. I've been super busy lately.
Today's post is all about the Herndon Monument tradition at the US Naval Academy. At the end of each academic year, there is a tradition at the USNA that the 1st year students (known as plebes) must scale the Herndon Monument on campus and replace the paper cup placed on the top by the upper-classmen with a plebe's hat. The catch is that the upper-classmen have greased up the Monument with a heavy coating of lard. This means that the plebes must use a combination of teamwork & muscle power to do the trick. This inevitably means that cheering crowds of onlookers are treated to the spectacle of sweaty, greasy, muscular bodies glistening in the Spring Sun.
