Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-02-08
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
DnIDAy MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, ISoU.


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r1;o shown that l03 State Cadets and 5O Pay Cadets
10 educated at the present of the Public Guard ana
,hot all the military duties now performed oy the a''e''
could hc efficiently discharged by the former, we propose
now TO point of the advantages winch "ouo result
if the proposed transformation he MADE
p ,lnc the State Cadets from parents unable 10 educate
III; sons thai number would acquire an education 10
which otherwise they would ever be strangers. Ann' sup
nosinu that of the 05 25 graduate every year. ana these DC
made 10 teach school within the State at least TWO years. "
= conversation barely enough 10 maintain te' 'eie VI"
he 6lty thus engaged after the two hrs GLASSES sa a
graduated ever afte ward; and supposng each mas sc
numbering 90 there will be 1000 children every year oehs
inns ,ouob BY these graduates In years 1000 will thus
have been educated If suppose many oil these yon"
men, thus teaching school return for the iberahy Oh
b STATE n embrace il as profession and continue beyond
rho two years required by law doubtless VIII be the ca'
rho number of these school will soon be ample oi
tho STATE without having depend upon other States ''
them ,.-;,., from,
Another and by no means small gain 10 be derived rom
This school, viii be That the textbooks ami INC
svs,en of teaching will be adopted wherever these e'aau
atcs may settle ,,
Bu il is urged that the intoxicating military
will be highly dangerous This error arises rom a
misundcr standing TO the extent to when mus '".e
taught; and we here insert the SUBJECTS to when
is paid al the Lexington Institute, 10 Which ihV pr
School is to be assimaIed. n
First Year-Aritsmec first principles oil Algebra ''u
ometry English Grammar Geography and French
Second gcar-Alsebra Geometry, Analytical ''e"le'iy
commenced, French, Drawing, Landscape.
Third ysayAnaytical Geometry concluded, DESCRIPTIVE
Geometry Shades aud Shadows and Perspective, Surveying
Ditierenal and Integral Calculus, French, Latin, DRAWING
Topography and Linear. o..,
Fourth ycar-AIcchanics Chemistry, Military ana ,Ni
Engineering Tactics Infantry and Artillery, La'' hhsNs"
Literature, Rhetoric, Geography and History.
Thus il will be SEEN that only in the last year consc'
bo, any military studies are placed before the radcls hey
simply learning the common drill in the three ts' years.
known (of il should be- every member oi our 'o'
companies throughout the State; and this is taught
study and recitation hours, When al all other lnso me
students ARE in the acquiring loose habits ana loose
annlaceand vet these military schools are condemned DIS
being of immoral tendency
During the last wear of instruction the movements VI III
mics arc specifically looked into, and the construction o'
,od canals bridges carpentry and masonry are also TAUGHT
and some shah attention is paid the principle OF Field
FORTS and Foresses; TIC hoe of which he Military parp
dcs moi absorb more than 80 mnu.s each day OF the ith
year
If then 90 i,c attention be given the military sciences
why call them military schdoswny not strlKc oa' 'i' ~
tue altogether from the Armory School
/, mus, b. remembered that military duties must te per-
formed the Afmory Else the ooooo STAND oil al
the other military property there ip depot will BE- endanscr
Cd and the guards al the PeniIeniiay aid Pe 'a'o hc
cd so that the question is original one but an al
tentative 10 the state Of things they exist nj present
Next We shall speak of the advantages 10 the militia from