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

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SYLVANUS THAYER

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IN 1776 the farsighted congressional ' committee depicted here recog- nized the need for a Military Academy of the Armv and created the iirst phms for it. Superintendent Thayer realized in 1817 that the Academy must be a competent educa- tional and cultural institution as well as a proving-ground for American manhood. From these two fundamental concepts has evolved the United States Military Academy of today. This hook, the Howitzer of the Class of 1940, is dedicated to the history of the Military Academy and to the traditions which we, as cadets, soon to take our places in the Long Gray Line, have cherished during our proving period and which will re- main with us throusrhout our careers.

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THE CADET PRAYER bed. our Father, Thou Searcher of men ' s hearts, help us to draw near to Thee in sincerity and truth. May our religion be filled with gladness and may our worship of Thee be natural. Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing (fClW kr. teirj. ' ' yi- ' i Miand clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish. Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life. us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content Make ■iiiiiiiiHliiMiii