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

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Pc ff, sw Q i, 4 V is ,x -L if l f - ' fa' 1: 5 if ' 'ZW5 1551 9 if ' E ia at Ni 3. il ij,Mf i,5 aam aaffsa.. . i-E.'f-Hwy' 'Q ' gf f. mins: ,fl , . sv. . t the face of the earth, and make her the repository of such historic relics and objects of interest as they may have opportunity to procure for her. Of graduates in civil life there is a list about equal in number to those who have remained in service, presenting a wonderful record of distinguished achievement, the more remarkable when it is remembered that ours is a military school of restricted educational range whose prime function is to prepare soldiers. How admirable must be a system of training and a tradition which is so comprehensive in results. Educa- tion is a preparation for the activities of life which will enable a man to realize the best that is in him and to achieve the maximum of which he is capable, and the record of West Point shows that this ideal is attained by it in an extraordinary degree. Here is a part of the civil record for the first century of its life, and to this the last eight years has also added its quota of accomplishment. Presidents of the United States, IQ Presidents of the Confederate States, IQ Presi- dential Candidates, 33 Vice-Presidential Candidates, 25 Ambassadors, IQ Ministers Plenipotentiary, 14, .Charge d'af- and Consuls, 12, Members of the dential Electors, 83 Governors of IQ Lieutenant-Governors of States Presiding Officers of State Senates ventions to form State Constitu- Presidents of Universities and Col- 14, Superintendent of Coast Sur- Chief Engineers of States, I4Q porations, 873 Chief Engineers of Superintendents of Railroads and eral, IQ Bank Presidents, 8. Every the noblesse oblige of the great famous brotherhood of which he tive of a noble tradition of upright- to justify his title to his diploma, x it -r---'--f 5 a ..,. . . Wu. ,-:ew . , ' .Mat -.. ...K , 5 c.. X: W '-5' I ,init pg n. T5 il f ,A rg mi .. .3 .f 5 : - 7 : faires, 23 U. S. Consuls-General U. S. Senate and House, 24, Presi- States and Territories, 165 Bishops, and Territories, 25 Judges, I4, and Houses, S5 Members of Con- tions, 13, Mayors of Cities, 17, leges, 463 Regents and Chancellors, vey, IQ Surveyors-General, II, Presidents of Railroads and Cor- Railroads and Public Works, 635 Public VVorks, 62, Superior-Gen- graduate has, therefore, behind him achievements of the small and is a member, as well as the incen- ness, to spur him to an endeavor and he is to remember that both the institution and his fellows ', ' x ,R V - A I' HTC SUPTQUTCIY 50310115 Of their heritage, and will E ,.': ,..,g. . ,,'., Q have him for the Wfmain' der of his days under close and U11SDf11'i11g SCYLIUUY- His career is Written upon f h e 'inevitable record 16

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N j' A . , df tu -A.wfx15,C, l'1E- - -M1 if y ,,f wq3.J.j, , - V .,. 1 s g -. 1 ' ,,.-,iii -..un... A .- ' -- magnitude, or recreant to a knighthood so noble and a trust so supreme? Including the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Ten, 4,936 men have graduated-from West Point in 108 yearsg or an average of a little less than 45 per year. Of these 552, or over II per cent., have become general officers either in the armies of the United States or of the Confederacy, 246 have been killed in action and nearly one-half have entered civil life. There are about 2,550 graduate-s now living, of whom the oldest two are General Samuel T. French of the class of 1843 and General Simon Bolivar Buckner of the class of 1844, both general officers of the Confederate Armyf The Association of Graduates, organized in 1870, numbers 1,336 at present writing, and publishes an annual report containing the necrology for the year together with a record of the meetings and officers of the Association, as well as an occasional bulletinp It possesses in Cullum Memorial Hall a splendid home, costing with its equipment about S275,000.00, the gift of an alumnus, in which are memorialized the distinguished sons of the Academy who have died, and in which the living members of the Association can tind lodging upon the occasion of their visits to West Point. In connection with the Hall, General Cullum left a fund for art works, and another for the ister-a work altogether unique pleteness as a biographical rec- cational institution. All gradu- and unite in making it a power terests of the Academy. This Point a very minute fraction of people dispersed over an im have a fairly clear understand- ord of this great institution, and ception of its genius and value. well-being and development that regards should be universal. Our ter this if they would individual- occasion to combat mis- and to exert personal in- Alina Mater in all matters Let her graduates bear brance, also, when they the purchase of memorials and perpetuation of the Cullum Reg- in its character, scope and com- ord of the personnel of anedu- ates should join this association for the advancement of the in- is a very large land, and West it. Of our ninety millions of mense area, but a few thousands ing of the organization and rec- many have a prejudiced miscon- It is highly important toiour a true understanding in these graduates could do much to fos- ly and by co-operation take representation and error Huence in behalf of their' concerning .her welfare, her in generous remem- are scattered abroad upon

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