The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-05
THE CADzrsH1P.
EXAMINATION a. NaonroeviIle.

On Wednesday, March 9th, a company Of
twenty-eight young men assembled at Mon
roeville, to be examined for the cadetship for
West Point, most generously offered for COM
petition to the ingenious youth of the district,
by our Congressman, Hon. c. Foster.
REMARKS OF MR.. oowDERY.
Mr.. Cowdery, of Sandusky, opened the pro-
ceedings by making very neat and appropri-
ate address to the young aspirants.
He remarked upon the importance to the
public generally of this movement, commended
the public spirit of our Representative, in thus
Offering this valuable scholarship to some tai
ented youth in the district, instead of bestow-
ing it upon some relative, or the son of some
wealthy friend. He declared that it was the
desire of the committee to so discharge this du-
ty that the public should be convinced that
the successful competitor had been selected
for his individual merit, and hoped that the
precedent now being set by these competitive
examinations, would be such that the time
would soon come, when no congressman would
assume and exercise the exclusive prerogative
of bestowing this important gift on some per-
sonal friend.
MODE OF EXAMINATION.
The distinguished educator then proceeded
to explain to the young gentlemen the mode
of examination which the committee had de-
termined to pursue.
Col. Zahm would distribute, to each compe-
titor, a slip of paper on which he was to write
his name, age and post Office address. The
Colonel would then give privately to each |
competitor a number, and would write the |
same on his slip which he would seal in an en-
velope on which would be written the same |
number. That each competitor would write |
his number on each paper Of answers he hand
ed in: that the examination would be wholly /
on paper, that the committee would submit to |
them a series of questions on various subjects |
in writing, that definite time would be Civ
en- to each series, and a definite value assigned |
to each question in such series, that the papers /
of each applicant would be examined, and he
would receive credit for such questions as
were correctly answered, according to the val /
ue assigned. That the spelling, style and gen.
eral excellence Of each paper would also be
considered and a value assigned for this also.
That the committee would examine the respec-
tive papers, that they would not know whose
papers they were inspecting, that the number |
that obtained the highest amount of credits |
would be handed to Col. Zahm, who would
open the corresponding envelope and an
nounce the name of the successful competitor.
SATISFACTION.
a general acquiescence in this plan was
and the committee Withdrew, the
medical gentlemen to examine the physical
qualifications of the candidates, and the pro-
fessors to prepare for the intellectual tests
The young men, then one by one were sent |
to a room in which the physicians were in sos-
sion. This occupied the whole of the morn
ing and the intellectual examination did not |
commence until about 2:3O p. m.
APPEARANCE OF COMPETITORS.
While waiting for this it may be remarked
that the young men are assembled in the exhi-
bition hail of the handsome school building, |
that they are a fine looking body of young
men intellectually, with good looking faces,
well balanced heads, open clear eyes, and
many of them exhibiting remarkably superior
perceptive faculties. In advance it may be
confidently anticipated that whoever is the
fortunate competitor will amply vindicate the
wisdom and Judgment of our distinguished
congressman.
Col. Zahm kindly furnished the names of
the competitors are as follows: