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

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liiiSt,O1'iCS of West A Point, wanted is a vivid picture that shall show what it is, not only what it has done, We all know, more or less well, what VVest Point is 1'L0'ZU,' what is wanted is to realize how it came to its present state. An institution has an evolution like that of an individual-from youth to complete manhood. We cannot understand a man until we know the steps through which he has grown to power. It is for this reason that no picture of West Point can be adequate unless it is projected on the background of a . S 3. 3 U.S.MQA--1370 history. Like every other living thing, its present is rooted in its past. 'Une can rind a succinct account of the Academy in the Cadet Register of each year, and the two quarto volumes- The Centennial of the U. S. M. A., 1802-1902 U-contain its official history for the first hundred years of its existence. There are formal histories of the Academy by Park, Boyn- ton, Farley, Schaff, and others, accounts of cadet experi- ence are to be found in the memoirs of its graduates, novels and stories relating to VVest Point have been written by King, Malone, Roe, and many others, a biographical reg-

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Hi 9 1 TV' J' if T ri fa H LtAI'a fWU I Zrlli W RQEHJ A I L 7-ff H J W J QL X. I Editor-in-Chief ROBERT bTARRS ALOYSIUS DOUGHERTY BUSINESS MBDBKCT ' I Associate Editors GLEN EDGAR EDGERTON BLAINE ANDREW DIXON EDWARD SEERY HAYES Literary CHARLES LACEY HALL RICHARD TIDE COINER Art GEORGE AUGUST MATILE THEODORE KENDALL SPENCER CHARLES HARTWELL BONESTEEL Academic A ENOCH BARTON GAREY PHILIP GORDON Grincls Athletics ALEXANDER LONG JAMES HOIVIER IVICLAUGI-ILIN GRONINGER GEORGE WASHINGTON BEAVERS Photography ' ' STUART C. GODFREY JOHN KIMBALL BROWN Representatives from 1909 HUGH H. IVICGEE Representative from 1 9 1 0 MEADE WILDRICK JOHN C. H. LEE I 5

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ister of each and every graduate has been published 'by 1833. It is no more than just to say that the policy of Cullum. The Association of Graduates annually provides Thayer was steadily carried out, and improved upon, by every member with Bulletins and Reports that cover our General Totten, Chief of Engineers and Inspector of the current history. If Lot LLM' 'A c 'co' ' c ' ' ' A fc ' ' ' 'M I ' ' ' maps, and engravf Academy. I take i greater part of the Our Birthday.- mand in Fort Clit 1779, has lately bee an order published Corps of Engineer West Point, by con' of War. The trt school 'at West P 1779, and Generali founder. His advi many other matter exander Hamilton Knox. It- will not poffraiis of Wasl and Knox will be on the walls of the Colonel Thayer.- we know it dates tendency of Colone who commanded 'l ' . , .