United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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T1 WAS not a desire to add another to the list of books “published exclusively for the use of the Cadets of the Cnited States Military Academy” which led us to attempt this modest volume. It was rather a desire to leave behind us something which would serve as a pleasant reminder of ourCadct days. No records other than the battle-scarred volumes we have mastered and which we shall ever retain as trophies of our earliest campaigns will be needed to recall the working side of life at the Academy, but we deem it fitting to include in a work of this kind something which will serve as a record of the inner side of Cadet life as we have known it. After four years of the severest discipline and the hardest labors we are about to graduate and enter the world of life and action. What it holds for us it is. of course, impossible to say. but certain it is that the absorbing cares and varied interests which will soon fill our lives will tend to drive from our minds the pleasant memories of youthful days. May this little volume ever serve to lead us back to and recall all that has been bright and pleasing in the days when, impatient with the restraints of our daily life, we dreamed of glory and achievement and longed for the larger life beyond. One aim we have had constantly before us has been to foster the kindly feeling which exists between the classes now at the Academy and to do something to perpetuate it. In this we hope we have succeeded. In thus recording a few of the happenings that have brightened our days and lightened the labors which otherwise would have borne heavily upon us it is possible that we have included things which, in strict justice, might better have been omitted, but it is to be remembered that we have written whatever appears on these pages in just the same spirit in which it was told when we were all cadets together. If we have done aught to increase the love we all have for our Alma Mater and to preserve in pleasing form the memories that cluster round it. our time has been well spent and our labors have not been in vain. 3