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

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Academic' briefly school W1 Wxth Ins Jewell so- that it has rcom fbr 'every talent, no matter how excep-

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'Zfi,fQ1?TZfCZO57?4ff 2,-Wi? 751 f A N9M1Le.m3PivHs1,:,sxif i 2 F' acquired at lrVest Point. This is the Old Army to which men look back with pride. C'Quntry's Wars.-The Mexican War was fought men in command of squadrons, battalions and Well it was fought let General Scott, the say: I give it as my fixed opinion ggracluatecl cadets, the war betvveen the Mexico might, and -probably would, have years, with, in its first half, more defeats to our share, whereas, in less than two a great country and a peace, with- battle or skirmish. VV hat the gradu- Wfar would take a volume to relate. VVar and still more the pacification brilliant chapters in the Armyis Military Academy is a school of a results of its training have been so that the community at large has come school itself and to approve, Without its methods If the results are on the methods by which they are at- this is the logic of the public, which iresults. Exactly what its methods are persons in civil life understand, even education. There are many graduates in, fact, pvvho have never thought out our

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tional, or even bizarre. Theoretically, at least, Shelleyivvas- f in place at Oxford University. Wliistler and Poe 3 ,i have been in place at Harvard, although We could 'notfkeep , them here. I ffl it Our Methods.-The methods of the Military Academy are 5 totally different from those- of the college, because its ypnoln-,fl lem is entirely unlike. Individuality is as important i1i:,fi?tl1e5f.,f'li-Q4 army as in civil life, but it is more 'important still that 1a11n15Qffl officers-each and every one of them-shall have' simple and practical virtues. It is indispensable that 'E shall be scrupulously honest in their moneyg methods are in vogue here by'Whiclir4. l?oi11esf57'Ii? -.ns taught very much as infantry tactics taught.-. They must be prompt, obedient, co-operativeg I'1ilCfl1l'1OdS, 'L .efflii-.fig I inculcate these virtues, and .compulsions -have ' li . fp to insist upon them all. I wish to point we insist on and encourage in our but an intelligent conformity' to stailelardsg fbeeii developed after long experience and, again.'l'iSQ' 'We desire to graduate each year at each it one of whom is letter-perfect in minor and almost mechanical virtues 5 firmly groundledliin certain excels 1 lencies of prime importance to the service of the stateig ' rooted in habits that will keep him loyal, co-operative ,and -r efficient under any stress. We claim that so much as this is done for an overwhelming proportion of our graduatedi . cadets. In all of them certain habits are fixed once and for e 1., . r . ll ii PRESENT ARMS !