New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12

all who try for West-Pont
fail pass the thirds which enter are consequent
" of superior quality For year they are clothed,
fed, exercised, quarered bedded and educated under
the highest standards of the modern experience.
In year they become straight strong, healthy,
dignied repressed, serious homogeneous different
from the entering class of year before that the
change has to be before it will be
pretended.
The absolute democracy of the system and its
excellent result equally delightful. From the day
the student enters his social past becomes blank.
Whoever and whatever his people may be, he IS
from that day prospective officer of the United States
Army, and his value and the esteem accorded him
measured solely by that lard. Each receives
from the Government five hu ldre1 dollars year.
Out of this he must buy all of his necessities at the
''storc." If he is economical this suiiices. If he
exceeds his allowance tn excess Is charged against
him, to be made COOL out of future pay He must
take good care of all his cothe, and belongings BE
his father twenty times millionaire, he wears pre-
ci5ey the clothes and underwear. precisely
the same fool. smokes precisely the same tobacco
has precisely the same luXurei or lack OF them as all
his comrades.
Herein IS the great superiority IS admitted by the
English officers, OF Wcst-pont Sandhurst. The
private life OF the cadet the latter school is not
thus supervised and the excellence OF discipline,
closeness of application to study, and equality of
competition not attained
At Taps At ten o'clock every night, every cadet
be in bel and properly rndrcsscd At six in the
morning the rolling drums Of the Revee make him
without delay lie has only twenty minutes IN
which wash dress fold up bedding sheets and
coverlets in the prescribed way. put his washStand
his room. his lpckcr and himself order and be ready
for inspection Tha companies form in the square
and march the mess-hall At 6:3o he breakfasts
his cap hanging hook at the back OF his chair.
His eating is done always under officers eye. His
napkin ring, of silver, bearing the of the Academy
and his name purchased by him upon entering and
when he leaves constitutes his treasured souvenir
After breakfast he begins regime of study
which beVOnd doubt the known
any college 4
modern languages, natural and experimental
philosophy, geography, chemistry, mineralogy
and geology, the science of war, ordnance and &
gunnery and and always drill This
compels the most incessant study Unless q
the student is exceptionally facile it keeps ~
him grinding away without cessation during N =
the whole four years of his course. Peace =
of mind is almost unknown, because IS
the result of the coming examinations
which conducted with the extreme of ~
impartiality and rgidity, is always source ~
of less fear doubt
According to the regulations: "Examin-
atoms held in December and Tune
and at the former such of the new cadets i
found proficient in studies and ri
have been correct conduct given
the particular standing their class to
which their merits entitle them After II
each examination cadets found deficient Ill
in conduct studies discharged from ~
the Academy unless the Academic Board,
for special in each case, should sg
recommend otherwise" ~
1t readily will be understood that such