THE QUlVER 27 on-eupation tloes otlei' a tn-lll tor your enl:u'g-ell eapaf-ity, 'l'lle man who never takes a 1-hanve when he is young- petrilies 1-an-ly into a luuulllt- tixture on his ag4'g'i'essiVe neiglilioi s payroll. .Xiul he misses inoiw- than the money that 1-ouu-s front suet-essg he misses the rieliei- i'ewai'4l ol' sat- isfal-tion arising' from living up to his lu'ai'est. lliulil-st nature, l,4-ave when you have learnt-tl all then- is to learn, when that partit-ular' lil-Ill no ltlllg1'l'l' otters the opportunity toi' Hgfllllllbllllll, aunl yolll' olrl task- 1llilNl9l'tlN' he Ill'HlillHNtlI' oi' storm-lu-epei'--will 'five vou 'toll-sp.-1-tl :intl a lu-ttei' ot l'l'1'tIllllllt'llll2Illllll. United States Military Academy. ELMORE BEACH GRAY '05. N 'l'IlE west shore of the Ilurlson. on a lu-oatl tahln--lantl one llllll- mln-tl antl sixty feet almove the river. lifty miles north ol' New York, anel twice as fill' south of Allnany. is situaterl the l'nite-l States Military At'illlt'll1j', llere the .Xl-afleiny has stooll for over a eeu- turyg hilt so few have Ile:-n the lllll'l'Il2ll 1-lianun-s that have ol-1-ui'i'e-l mluring' that tiine, that its nu-thoals, alul tht- lite ot' its stullents. tollay, are niueh the saine as they were one llllllIlI't'tl years ago. 'l'houg'h similar in these resin-1-ts, the ext--rual eliang-es Ilan- lu-en Yvlj' lllill'lil'4l, eslieeially in the last llel-alle: antl to-mlay tln-re are seven puhlie lmuiltlings in the eourse ot' instrum-tion, on the military x'ese1'va- tion. Before the Holtl NV:-st Point is entirely oliliterateml lil'lllll our lllUlIllll'y. hy the llllllllillllllll of some ot' the historie olll laull-inarks, it may he interesting' to see why this spot slioulll have lu-en sell-1-tell as a situ- t'o1' the 1Xt'ElllL'lllyZ aunl to give lu-Ve a very sulu-Vtieial history ul' its life. XVest l'oint is the olmlest military post ow-1' whit-h the .Kina-i'i4-an Hag' has continuously tioateal. 'l'l1ei'e were t'o1'titit-ations in the vit-iiiity early in the llevolution, hut the Point itselt' was not fortitin-tl until after llin'g'oyne's sui'i'en1lei'. It will he 1'--eallell that l-hui-goyiit-'s plans were to nieet Sir llenry Vlinton at Alhany, thus lu-lil-ailing' the 1--nlonit-s. Vlinton inovetl up fi-oin New York, and easily ovt-i'powert-tl tlu- liannllul ot' 111011 in forts Montgomery autl Vlinton. tive nliles south of Wt-st l'oint, t'linton hall now unclisputeml possession ot' the llumlson l'r-out New Yon-IQ to Albany, hut ln- haul not mow-ll fast euougli to suit lilll'g'lbyll1', anll the latter was ohlig-ell to Sll!'I'Ulllll'l' at Sll1'2Ii1lQ'il on the seventh ol' Neto- her, 1777, with whieh event we are all l:2lllllllilI'. l'linton then XYlTlllll'tA'Y to New York.
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