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

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“This text-book is designed primarily for the cadets of the I . S. Military Academy, who arc being fitted for a profession in which the principles of civil engineering are of daily application. K Gods! wlint a prospect. If this be true, graduation will bring no relief and we are destined to grow gray while groping our way through an interminable maze of strains, stresses, moments, and shears with no other guide to our faltering footsteps than the inevitable Cambria handbook. Must we believe that a second lieutenant of the white stripe variety is supposed to hold himself in constant readiness to build anything from a chicken coop to a skyscraper upon demand? It is a most appalling prospect. The path of the faithful few who hold up the bottom of the class is seldom strewn with roses but here they encounter an additional impediment to their peaceful progress in the shape of an increment of five tenths on the mark required for proficiency, increasing it to the formidable proportions of 2.5. The expedients adopted to escape this stumbling block have varied from attempts to speck, entire, the tables in the Cambria, to making frequent trips Vassal-ward to get a physical conception of the Poughkeepsie Bridge (one goat's explanation of his monthly wanderings in that direction). A watchful Kate has decreed, however, that all knowledge shall not be gleaned from books by the creation of the practical (as opposed to the impractical?) Military Knginccring Course. Caesar bridged the Rhine, so history tells us, but in all chronicles of his campaigns we find nothing « worthy of commemoration in song and story as the feat of crossing the Hudson on raft composed of empty beer kegs. As instruction progresses, little outings are planned, and the surrounding landscape is sketched and mapped with varying degrees of accuracy. 'Phis work results in a familiarity with clinometers, pedometers, hexameters, gas-meters, and the staple locally known as a P. M. K. lunch. In the last case, familiarity breeds contempt, and usually, indigestion, for this delicacy is an appetizing concoction, manufactured of most durable materials—one orange, two bard boiled eggs, one' bologna sandwich, one mutton sandwich impregnable alike to digestive juices, teeth, axe or dynamite. — 19

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tVfcfcY BRIDGE THAT HE MKES fjTHER BVCKLE3 OR BREAKS.” Department of Civil and Military Engineering PROFESSOR Coloxki. CiirjrrAV J. Fikiikgkh. Cadet, t’. S. M.A.. 1875-1879; appointed from Ohio; graduated 5; Second Lieutenant of Engineers. 1879; First Lieutenant, 188:?; Captain, 1891; Professor of Civil and .Military Engineering, U. S. M. A.. 189fi. ASSIST A NT PHO FKSSOR Fiiist Liimtkxaxt William A. Mitciikll, Corps of Engineers; class 0?; graduated 1. INSTRUCTORS Fiiist Likitkxaxt L. rio:xt i: V. Fiiazikr, Corps of Engineers; class ’0?; graduated 0. First Likctkxaxt Hakoi.ii C. Fiskk. Corps of En-gincers; class '03; graduated 3. Fiiist Liki tkxaxt Ji’i.ian L. Siiii.ky, Corps of Engineers; class '03; graduated 7. First Likutbxaxt William I). A. Axntaisox, Corps of Engineers; class '01; graduated 2. Department of Practical Military Engineering, Military Signalling and Telegraphy INSTRUCTOR Caitaix William P. Wootkx, Corps of Engineers, class '98; graduated 3. SENIOR ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR First Likctkxaxt .Mark Brook k. Corps of Engineers, class ’(0; graduated 5. — 18 —

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 Captain Daniel G. Hemrv, . .’ 1 Infantry; class '08; graduated 31. INSTRUCTORS Captain Sami ki. T. Ax sell, 8th Infantry; class '99; •Trailtinted 31. Caitaix Clement A. Tiiott, 5tli Infantry; class 99; graduated 36. First I.iectkn ant Marion W. I Iowze, 3d Field Artillery; class 03; graduated 17. Second Likctkxant Henry K. Mitciii:i.i .3d Cavalry; class 0i?; graduated 36. Second Liectexant Harry S. CIkieh. 25th Infantry; class 03; graduated 71. Second Likctkxant John de B. W. Gakdinkr. Ilth Cavalry; class 05; graduated 28. Colonel Kodak S. Di.’di.ey, LI..1L, I.I..D., Judge d-vocatc, I . S. Army; Cadet, t . S. .M.A., 1866-1870; appointed from New York; graduated 15; Captain Staff. 1892; Lieutenant-Colonel and Judge Advocate, U. S. V., 1898; Major and Judge Advocate, I . S. V’., 1899; Major and Judge Advocate, I . S. Army, 1901; Colonel and Judge Advocate, 1903; Professor of Law and History, C.S. M. A.. 1901. SS 1ST A N T PRO F ESSO R v KOOME fcfc FELT THE M ALTER 0R y GOOD OPINION Of THE LAW. Department of Law PROFESSOR — 20 —