The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-23

ouI loI uflll, II the weather permits
rms Is over at $50, but it Is immedi
ately followed by dress parade. Supper
formation is made at $50 and the mea
lasts until seven o'clock.
1t would seem to young civilian thai
this ought to complete a pretty fail
days work, but the mental require
ments of the academic work are so ex-
acting that the young man must now
go to his room and study hard fol
three hours. At ten o'clock lights are
out, and the cadet has eight whole
hours and fifteen short minutes abso-
lutely to himself. During the summer
encampment the cadet is required tc
rise at $50, but is free from his books
Nearly all the day is taken up with
drills and guard is maintained night
and day until the encampment breaks
up.
For instruction in infantry tactics
and in military police and discipline the
cadets are organized into battalion
of four companies, under the command
ant of cadets, each company being
commanded by an officer of the army.
The officers and non commissioned Of
flcers are selected from those cadets
who have been most studious, soldier
like in the performance of their duties,
and most exemplary in their general
department. In general the captains
and lieutenants are taken from the first
class, the sergeants from the second
| class and the corporals from the third
class, There are four cadet captains,
fourteen cadet lieutenants-two of them
discharging the duties of adjutant and
quartermaster, respectively-a ser
geant major, a quartermaster sergeant
twenty other sergeants and twenty cora
porals. All cadets without regard to
class or duties performed, receive the
same pay-five hundred and forty dol
lars year. This sum, with proper
care, can be made to cover all the ca
diets expenses and often leaves him
enough at the end of the four years
course to buy his uniform and arms
when he receives his commission.
1t ought to be needless to add that the
boy who succeeds must be one who is
amenable to discipline. There is pun
ishment for every delinquency commit
ted, nor is this punishment ever omit
ted or rescinded where guilt is proven.
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entail suspension or dismissal are divi-
ded into seven groups. Every offense
possible is in this long category, and
each of the seven divisions has its own
number of dement's ranging from one
for an untidy floor to ten for an offense
so grave as INSTRUMENTATION or disobe-
dience. There are supplementary pun
ishments such as punishment tours
l. e., marching across the quadrangle
for a stated number of hours in full I'M
form, and carrying rifle and bayonet.
Punishment tours" are walked Satur
day afternoon after inspection at
time when the other cadets are enjoy
ing themselves in any proper form of
relaxation that they prefer. Another
supplementary punishment is confine-
ment for stated number of weeks or
months within prescribed limits, which
cuts off for that time all of the cadets
opportunities for the pleasant and re-
taxing social life of the post.
For lying or other offenses against
morality the punishment is invariably
dismissal, for manliness IS the keynote
of that for which the academy training
strives. Truthfuness and obedience
are treated as of prime Importance In
a cadets career, and the mental and
bodily training comes next.
One of the greatest social pleasures
of the academic year is found in the
Saturday night hop at Cullum Me-
mortal hall On Saturday afternoon,
cadets are permitted to visit officers
families on the post if invited, Satur-
=
cadets may secure permits to |
visit friends at the hotel, but at no 9TH
err time are they allowed to enter the !
hotel, and at no time without permit.
The social life of our young military
students has to be thus limited in order !
to prevent possible neglect of some of |
the great amount of study required.
Sunday is not a day of absolute rest. |
Rising time is the same as on anyother |
day, and Immediately after breakfast
the cadet must set to work to make his |
room and all his belongings come up to
the highest standard of soldierly neat |
ness. At $3.50 he knows that the COM
mandant of cadets and the entire corps |
of tactical officers will enter the bar
racks and searchingly inspect every
uuires a good deal of work, thought and
around to make sure that no
opening has been left for the comman-
dant's censure. Inspection is followed
by chapel attendance, and then, afted
dinner, the cadet is at liberty until
1ress parade.
In recent years system of Interior
ence with new cadets known as "haz-
ng" came into existence, and was
harmful both to the name and to the
work of the academy. In cases this
practice was carried to cruel and bru-
al extremes. In the earnest endeavors
made to put an end to the system,
he measures resorted to have covered
he several fields of personal effort to
,reate moral sentiment among cadets
against hazing, and of published orders
md warning punishments of different
grades of severity.
In the beginning a strong spirit OF
assistance was shown by cadets. The
of the academy also Of
cred obstacles to the suppression of
he practice. These difficulties have
,een overcome, and with the establish |
nent of the regulations following the
ecent enactment of congress, together
With the now strong opposition of the
adets themselves to hazing, I believe
In absolute end has been put to any
raa tpoant of a new cadet entering the |