When one cadet is fed up with Army discipline and seeks to resign, he gets into a fight with a more dedicated upper class man. He in turn surprises everyone by also tendering a resignation, but he refuses to disclose why.
While one cadet tries earnestly to keep a spotless record, his scheming roommate breaks rules left and right. A Major starts to take notice and compels the two to co-operate.
Marriage is planned by a cadet and his fiancée after graduation; but as the girl observes difficulties experienced by an older married couple at the point, she decides to call it off instead.
A plebe has to adjust to having an older brother as his leader, who gives no privileges. Their father's death impacts the plebe's decision to stay at the Academy.
The daughter of a family visiting the Point for the week-end falls in love with a Cadet below her on the social scale, and is pressured to end their relationship.
Cadet Kennedy was a Golden Gloves champion before West Point but he refuses to join the Academy boxing team. His older brother, a champion boxer in his own right, wants him to leave the Academy and return to boxing.
A cadet who shows great talent is put in a position of choosing if he'll stay in the academy or pursue an art career. He stays too long at his socialite girl friend's house and must race back to West Point to make curfew.
A star Army football player will be sidelined during the big game against Navy for breaking regulations. The only way to get him back in rests in the hands of a visiting prince.
After several highly disruptive stunts, a cadet must prove himself academically or be dismissed. He works out a scientific demonstration showing the strength of the academy's aged water system-with destructive results.
An uncontrolled temper outburst causes a cadet is confined to quarters for the weekend his girlfriend comes to the Point unannounced. Enlisting his roommate to show her around exposes his jealousy and damages the cadets' friendship.