Despised “snookers”
Globe, Wednesday 04 March 1891
A correspondent informs me, apropos of a course of dancing being included in the syllabus of instruction of West Point Cadets, that at the Royal Military Academy the Woolwich Artillery Band plays dance music three times a week in the Gymnasium, and that on these occasions most of the cadets, including presumably the despised “snookers,” avail themselves of the opportunity afforded, and so become very good performers. I take it that the “snookers” fill the rôle of the weaker sex, since the Spurgeon system holds good at Woolwich as at West Point.