During his junior and senior years,

During his junior and senior years, Harley built his physical toughness to new levels while balancing academics and other activities that challenged his mental facilities. Younger than almost everyone in his class, Harley was cultivating a style all his own. He was mentally tough, physically strong, and he knew how to work the system to accomplish tasks. But he was a bit less mature than his older classmates, and perhaps a bit insecure in this realization. He frequently could not control his tongue—he was well known for his profanity. Arnold was singled out for his perfection of the use of “sulphurous cuss- words.” Additionally, he had a propensity for tardiness, a shortcoming for which he earned several demerits.57 In both positive and negative ways, he, like all the other cadets, was laying the bedrock for the rest of his career.