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

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x x 1 wa.. -g -. . ,-.- , ,., .. . - . , ' ,- e , t 5 a i ' t e' 'ffl ' W W it . .4 fmfsswaenawa vrwr , ,.., fi in 4,21 ' Qi- ,, f ai at - 4 , , - 'X We at 'fr C utah ff- - 1 designed here will probably require ultimately ten millionsg and the total plant, includ- ing land and the older buildings together with material, will represent not less than fifteen millions. In addition to this the annual appropriations represent tive per cent. upon sixteen millions, so that the total endowment of West Point by the nation is an investment of thirty-one millions of dollars. No single institution in the world except Annapolis has, in proportion to the number of students, anything approaching such wealth behind itg and very few even without regard to number. In America Harvard has S2I,0II,574.00 of productive funds, but it is doubtful if her plant is worth SI0,000,000Q and Harvard's students number nearly five thousand, while West Point has but four hundred. Oxford University, with its twenty colleges, has a gross income, including fees, of S2,605,000.00, and reports about 4,000 undergraduates and nearly 7,000 members of convocation. Brazenose and Christ Church together, with 445 undergraduates, have a joint income of 3426,- ooo.0o. If all Oxford had only as proportional income would be only In America, barring the tive wealthy vard, Leland-Stanford, and Chicago, the investment of the Nation in the The United States would not not been justified by past results. The in the history of the country for one pear in the accounts of every phase The graduates of 'W'est Point have ization, holding the frontier the progressive line of settle- engineers of the land, laying out in our pioneer daysg and, they have had continuous con- and Harbor Improvements and S56oo,ooo,ooo.oo, exclu- Canal Work. To-day charge of this, per- gineering work of his- persistent effort to FL QQQ ' A vs 5:52, ' .ijsci 18 many graduates as West Point its about one-fourth that of West Point. institutions-Columbia, Girard, Har- none represents anything approaching two National Academies. countenance this large outlay had it narrative of these results is embodied hundred and eight years. They ap- of national development and activity. the advance guards of our civil- against savagery and protecting ment. They were the early civil the great arteries of commerce through the Corps of Engineers, trol of the great work of River the disbursement of nearly sive of the Panama sees its graduates in haps the greatest en- tory, after long and secure satisfactory re- been