Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-15
ST. JOHN 'SCOILEGE SELECTED
One Of The Six Whose Students
Are Designated For Army
Commissions.
A GREAT VICTORY FOR HOME
INSTITUTION.
Classed Among The Leading Col
leges of United States By
War Department.

ST. Johns College. this city. of
which DIR. Thomas Fell is president
has won a great victory and assuredly
a deserved one. st. Johns has been
selected by the War Department ms
one of the six leading military col
leges of the United States that rs en-
titled to designate a student this wear
for examination for appointment as
second lieutenant in the regular army.
AS there are said to be over one
hundred military colleges in the Uni
ted States, twenty-five or thirty OF
which were TO be /seleoted from this
year. the victory for St. Johns Col
lege is certainly high compliment
to this venerable institution. The
other leading military college selected
besides St. Johns is the Pennsylvania
Military Academy at Chester Pa.
-fAn order will soon be promulgated
by the War Department formally an
nouncing the names of the colleges
whose students exhibited the greatest
and proficiency in mill
tary training and knowledge during
the past school year. The selection of
these colleges is based upon reports
received by the War Department from
regular army inspectors. The institu
tions are as follows: Norwich Uni
veristy, Northfield. VT. Pennsylvania
Military College, Chester, Pa. South
Carolina Military Academy. Charles
ton, s. O.. st. Johns College. An
Md. st. Johns Military
Academy, Manlius. N. Y; Virginia
Military institute. Lexington. Va.
AS stated herein, the selection of St
Johns College is based upon the re-
port received by the War Department
at Washington after the recent inspec
tion which was made at Camp War
field, Tolchester Beach, where the St
Johns battalion of cadets were en-
camped for a week from June to
June l3, inclusive. The inspection
this year was made by Captain w. j.
Barden, rof the Corps of Engineers.
United States Army. The following
is a synopsis of Captain Barden's re-
port:
"A true military spirit as developed
and nurtured was found to be very
The degree of zeal, the
performance of military duty, very
Personal interview with the gradu-
ating class (cadet offioers) impressed
me very favorably. They were gentle
manly, neat and soldierly in appear :
ance and expressed themselves as being
very fond of tile military features of
the institution.
The manual drill and ceremonies
were well executed and in a business
like manner.
1.-The inspection showed that the
state of military instruction and dis
cipline at this institution is. in gener-
al, excellent. There are several of
this years graduates who will make
good line officers. y
This inspection was of very thor
ough nature in purely military
sense. The report, as a whole, was
one of the most complete and compre-
hensive ever submitted to the War De-
partment of the government in com
pliance with the regulations and re-
duirements of military college inspec
tion by all Army officer delegated for
this purpose.
The report was very complimentary
to the cadets of St Johns College as
a body. It showed that General Order
No. 6 had been strictly enforced at
the college and had been carried out.
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great advantage, being so nearly asso-
ciated with the Naval Academy and
with the marine officers at the School
of Application at the Marine Barracks.
This close association with the
branches of military service means
the cultivation of degree of friend
ship in a professional sense. which
adds much to the military training of
the battalion of st. Johns College ca
diets. Major w. A. Thompson, U S.
A., retired, is military instructor OF
the college.
Every year st. Johns College has
large number of applications from
military colleges throughout the coun-
try for some of the st. Johns gradu-
ates as military instructors at other
colleges The salary for these posi-
tions is large, and today a number of
the local college graduates are filling
these positions, and DR.. Fell has on
file applications for other instructors
from ST. Johns in military tactics.