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The Biggest 4th of July, 1826
Barney and the other cadets, they apparently the policy like goes poorly every year. They're all like, okay, just drink everything for 24 hours. Like two days a year, you can drink and read novels. Go crazy interpretations of Jane Eyre run around campus. She's a Christ figure. And so from there, Thayer says, okay, never mind, alcohol is just banned. You can't have it. There's no alcohol Christmas day, 1825. But then the next year, 1826, the cadets are like, hey, this 4th of July, 1826,. that's the biggest 4th of June ever. We have to party. And
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