The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-27

Well be dead as to be ahead of his time."
 Your reporter, for whom bear no re- sentiment, is, however, in no danger of dying, certainly not from being ahead of his time. In fact, he is away be- hind. Reporters should write prose and poetry that are really edifying to the public,
 l am an Ea3t Haven boy, New Ha- ven boy, a Westville boy, a Christ church boy, a Dwight school boy, Hillhouse boy, and my mothers only boy; and I sm Yale man, West Point man, Columbia man Further more I am one of the Sons of the Revo- lution, and the only son of the Honor able Charles William Bradley. for whom many good citizens entertain, and have long entertained, the most profound respect and esteem I have diploma or certificate of hon orable dismissal from every institution where I have been under instruction. enclose a sufficiency of these certi- ficates and testimonials to indicate the GUTI6CllUuS HlSllLlOllSu, lA Sou SeeA " publish same, especially my college l record in this city,
 Although my alleged West Point rec ord has hardly any direct bearing on | the subject, matters which your report l CT discusses, same was mentioned in such way as to tend to bring some discredit upon me. It is not my intention to gratify cur iosity, but I wish to say that in 1S79 hundreds including myself, were a 1 quarter of a century ahead of our l time, so far as the U. s. Military acad- emy was concerned, This statement is readily corroborated and verified in part by a comparison of the currieula
 of quarter of a century ago of Hill house high school, Yale and West Point As a loyal citizen of my country it 1 vas highly gratifying to me to learn some years ago that the standard at l West Point had been raised. have always been loyal to every in- l stitution where I have been under in struction and without making any undue comparisons, it has always been a source of qualification to me that the
 standards at Yale and Hillhouse were
 so high q quarter of century ago.
 were honestly lived up to, and I trust l will never be lowered; it should be re- membered that it is not the president and faculty alone who make a uniyer- sity what she really is; but the per- sonal lived-up-to standards of the in l dividual students themselves, also Esse quam yideri
 Yale, West Point and Columbia are historically knit together. Same is true | of Harvard and Yale
 l According to the official record at West Point, my military record at the U. s. M. A. is very proficient, highly | satisfactory. and everything else that l is svery good and excellent.
 Since my tour of duty at West Point
 I have been twice in the service of the l United States:- Coast and geodetlc sur-
 vey, 1890, state of Maine; same, 1S91- S2, state of Virginia
 During the interim between my leav- ing West Point and entering Columbia
 l was drill master, in 1886 at the Peeks- kill M A., where ] had one hundred and
 forty young men under my command,
 organized into battalion of four com panes, previous to which time I had been commandant and drill master else where.
 IntS93 I received an appointment with the rank of lieutenant colonel in Pennsylvania upon the recommenda- l ton of the late Colonel James Mercur,
 the then professor of engineering at the l IT., $. M. A. west Point, N. Y. In 1894
 95, I was the head master of a select
 school in New Jersey Later, I was
 again on the Hudson teaching
 In the words of Daniel Webster, "the
 past at least is secnre3
 SEYMOUR P. BRADLEY,