The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-24
THE DAILY LIFE OF THE WEST
 POINT CADET.


 In describing the daily life of a cadet | it is unfortunately necessary at the | outset. to refute the idea that this life | Is made up largely of leisure and frolic. | Nothing could be further from the truth No college in the country man ages to crowd into a course or TOUT years so extensive a curirculunl Yet, | in addition to all the long hours spent | in study and recita ation, every caoet IS 1 obliged to master thoroughly all the ln- trica cies of drill, minor tactics, the out door application of academic studies, and in general the essentials Of sound technical and military training. A young man there is obliged to rise at six o'clock every morning, except Sum- day. when he may stay abed until sev- en- Just enough time is allowed him m | which to dress properly, and to police | the room which he shares With one oth- CT cadet Policing consists in what i would be called chamber work in CIVIL life. but in no hotel in the country IS this work so systematically and tldlly performed as by cadets, for in the army neatness is insisted on as one of the first duties of soldier. By the time 1 the police work is over, the battanon forms and marches to breakfast in the Cadet Mess hall After the meal forty minutes are allowed for rest and recre- ation.
 Punctually at eight o'clock the sec- tions file to the various recitation rooms for the first recitations, an hour and a half in length Sections alternate in hours. After eleven o'clock reoitations are an hour long. For two and ralf hours in the morning cadets are sub iected to a long series of mental or deals. the intervening hours being used for study. There is no chance for ca- det. even if he is so disposed, to shirk his recitations. He cannot offer the ex- cuse of mot prepared" He must be ready. There is no hope for him to es- cape unnoticed in the recitation room, for each class is divided into sections, these sections consisting usually of eight men, and never of more than twelve. The professors and instructors have abundant time to draw out of each man just what he knows of the subject under discussion. Nor is there any hope of hiding ignorance by asking the
 
 All the professors and instructors are conversant with these little artifices of the class room and such an attempt on the part of a cadet would be sure to re- bound upon the offenders head The motto for academic work is, Every ca- det every day." and the standard, "Ev- cry cadet proficient in everything"
 From this strain of five hours mental work in the morning, the only cadet who can expect to escape is the one Who answers the "sick call' at 7:10 a. m and is excused from duty. If he is ill the young man is taken into the cadet hospital but, if his illness is slight he is ordered to keep to his quarters, and is excused from all work until his name is stricken from the 'sick report. Each cadet is supposed to make up the time lost when he becomes ill If he cannot do this, he is either turned back to the class next below, or else is sum- marily dismissed from the academy for deficiency w. c. Rivers, U. S A., in the March Success"
 or for Washington.
 New York, Feb 23.--Prince Henry and his party reached Jersey City al 12:10 this morning on his way to Wash ington He walked to the train through a roped enclosure guarded by eighty DO. licemen under Chief of Police Murphy of Jersey City. The train consisted o1 eight cars, the last one being the Co lunbia, devoted to the use of the prince and two immediate attendants. Assist ant General Passenger Agent G. w Boyd was in charge of the train. IT addition to the police guard on the plat form there were present Captain Titus of the New York detective bureau anC Chief Wilkie of the secret service. Int train left the station at 1 a. m., tht prince appearing on the rear platform of his car and lowing his asknowledg' ment of the cheers that greeted his de |