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

Page 9 text:

%eSTeCTFULLY V£T ICATeV TO THS g%AVUAT£S OF TH£ Uni eV STATES MIL1TA%Y ACAVEMY

Page 8 text:

|NE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE YEARS AGO A NEW NATION WAS BORN --. CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL §g MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL --. IN 1802 A NEW IN- ' STITUTION WAS CREATED - CONCEIVED IN THE CRYING NEED FOR LIBERTY ' S SUPPORT - AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL CIT- IZENS WERE BORN TO SERVE EQUALLY THESE NEW UNITED STATES AT THAT PORTENTOUS MOMENT IN OUR NATION ' S INFANCY WHEN THE FIRST CADET HEARD FORWARD MARCH - AND OBEYED-, THE ACADEMY BEGAN ITS MISSION THE YEAR 1927 FINDS THE ACADEMY AT THE 125th MILESTONE IN THE CON- STANT MARCH FORWARD OF NATIONAL GREATNESS IT HAS BEEN HER PRIVILEGE TO ADVANCE WITH THE NATION «- THE GRADUATES OF THE ACADEMY AND THE AMERICAN PIONEER HAVE GONE FORTH SHOULDER TO SHOULDER -. TOGETHER THEY HAVE WRITTEN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY ON A THOUSAND BATTLEFIELDS -. AND HAVE SURMOUNTED NUMBERLESS AND UN- KNOWN DIFFICULTIES AND HARDSHIPS -. LINKING EAST TO WEST AND NORTH TO SOUTH IN EVERY FIELD OF NATIONAL EN- DEAVOR THE ACADEMY HAS SENT FORTH HER STEADY STREAM OF YOUNG MANHOOD --, IMBUED WITH AN UNSELFISH SPIRIT OF DEVOTION TO AMERICA ' S PROBLEMS - A CONSTANT SOURCE OF DEPENDABLE MATERIAL FOR NATIONAL GROWTH - £ TODAY A NEW CLASS --. THE CLASS OF 1927 - TAKES UP THE MARCH ANOTHER ELEMENT IS ADDED TO THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE IN THE TURBULENT NATIONAL ARENA - ORDINARY •-. IN THAT ITS MEMBERS ARE YOUNG AND WILLING TO LEARN --. UNUSUAL - IN THAT WEST POINT HAS FOSTERED THEIR YOUTHFUL CURIOSITY AND ADDED TO IT COMMON SENSE --. ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL NECESSITIES WHICH MAKES OF YOUTHFUL AM- BITION -. SUCCESSFUL REALIZATION ([ HEREIN THEN IS A RECORD OF THEIR FOUR YEARS AS CADETS -- A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE LIVED A CADET ' S UFE A PRIVILEGE TO DEPICT HERE A FEW OF THE MORE OUTSTANDING CADET CHAR- ACTERISTICS ' - WHILE JUST THIS OR THAT POOR IMPULSE WHICH FO R ONCE HAD PLAYED UNSTIFLED SEEMS THE WHOLE WORK OF A UFETIME WHICH AWAY THE REST HAVE TRIFLED -,

Page 10 text:

QEO%qE WASHi?ig TO ' ]Si soldier - states- man ' AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HE FOUNDED THE FIRST PERMANENT MILITARY POST AT WEST POINT -. HE CREATED BY SPECIAL ORDER IN 1789 A CORPS OF ENGINEERS WHO WERE STATIONED AT WEST POINT FOR SPEC- IAL MILITARY TRAINING - HE SPONSORED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ' - THE IMMEDIATE NECES- SITY FOR TRAINED SOLDIERS TO PROTECT THE NEW COUNTRY MOTIVATED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ENGINEER SERVICE SCHOOL AT WEST POINT - THE NEED FOR TRAINED MEN IN THE CHAIRS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT PREDICATED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MILITARY ACADEMY COMBINING WITH THE STUDY OF THE ART OF WAR A CURRICULUM INCLUDING THE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES TODAY WEST POINT IS AN INSTI- TUTION REALIZED --. A PERMANENT ASSET TO THE UNITED STATES - A SYMBOL OF NATIONAL GROWTH «-