The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-16
CADETS GET THEIR DIPLOMAS
GETAWAY nav ar THE WEST
POINT ACADEMT.
Gen. HoNe Tells Graduates We need m
Army Bf 8O0,Oapo Men-seeTeiary
DlckRsOa Reminds Them mat rhelf
military Etlueatlun lias Jusi aegun.

military Edueatlon Vas just Aegai'
those two lettering chau Teurs who idly
tNirlcd on few miles On their taNim-
oters a. they lolled in the sun outside the
Forty -seoond street ferryhouse yes,er-
day afternoon will probably never again
be a. surprised 40 they we're just after ,
O'Clock when a hollering mob OF young
men with Rapping coats and dangling
suit cases bore down upon them for the
eight seats In their two small cabs. There
was no way for this pair of toilers n the
wheel 20 know that the graduating claAs
At West Point. augmented by the fur
lough bows, had Just been released. Had
they known Il there is every chance that
they wouldn't have possessed sntiicient
sympathy with the feelings Of a young man
Ia that situation n realize that the till
pay envelope IN his pocket precndes
him from street cars and walking unless
they can't he avoided
BIT the chnuheurs shrank down IN their
seats and permitted the fttest 70 survive
without interference. And when six or
seven citi1en clad boys had thrown their
hears Of bright tan suit cases and hat
boxes % the drivers seat and had thrown
themselves intp the other remaining
places there was Just enough power in
the innards II those GALS 60 let them creep
away Thus was our newest consign-
ment Of pence preserves launched from
the confines u the Ac ideny
The launching proper ha11ensd earlier
n the DAY up there under the trees AZ
West Pciat. In times gone nv they have
had a Way 81 handbag out the shsepskins
which hnk academic study and Presl-
dental commissions IN the s1ace before
the library At the Point, Some one this
year g't the bright iiaa that a much
better looking spot was near the monu-
ment az the north end Of the reservation.
Just above here the Hudson taxes a turn
that sweeps il a little 20 the eastward and
the elbow a. which the monument stands
gives a clear view a good many miles up
the river.
Even the canvas with ita peak above
the heads Of the mighty ones on the plat
form. couldn't block the visiOn Of the
@amicircle that Was there TO see the
handing out process. Nor could the
aplashss Of color where American aaRs
chung 70 the stand dim the picture Of
bright water and cool. green mountains.
Hnt those mountains were about the
only eool objects IN the immediate hori-
sca. No fimsy dress was half himsy
enough for the beating sunlight that a
tEacs q nn,st in the AR intensifaed. Para
sos only seemed to concentrate the
sutTiness And ~ Tor those tightly but
toned CADETS % the first class. who had
20 sit riNht down under the big guns,
bare headed ~ they were and without
q leaf above thsn. n WIS some proof II
respect for regulations that they didn't
bend a white ducked knee during all ths
time that they were advised how 10 ~
classy little officers.
The cadets of tho battalion. excepting
The first class. had marched across tho
parade ground from the barracks under
the command of Lieut. Col Freierick ",
sibley Of the Fourth Cavalry There was
plenfy Of room for the ones who weren't
foing 10 ne graduated IN the seats behind
tho mothers and fathers and Interested
young persons. Those Temporary
hleaohsrs that can hs whisked all over
the reservation provided perches for the
cadets too
The invocation n Chaplain Edward s.
Travers began the exercises. And then
Col Hugh l.. Scott. superintendent of the
academy didn't need many words -
intFOdnne ByIr Gen Walter Howe. com
handing che Department 4 the Fast. who
Waa 10 make ons Of the two addresses
Of tho day
Gen Howe told them right AZ the star
that h. know hey we're anxious 10 rruh
their diplomas AMI 60 away 10 move
oengenial climes Bt they Didn't realI.r.
ard he. that there are noae more con-
genial. And he said h. ought to know
hecathe Re has been IN the seFyice forty
aaven years and Is wl.h one eKcepii0n the
Oldest graduate oi We-t po,nt IN active
service
aftcre1 II the reyt few Sentences
G! his speech the. perhaps the vsvs 81
the Aoa-0ny are more severe In these
dave ths1 they we're IN his tine. Re
toll at0u; the custom Of riyi- 2 ,eclpma-
ti9rs AID the pra-tice ths. 0btni. . u Of
voI,ing three or four sclecti)rs over
tfaie They uset 10 get together befoI p
had snd Ceciie which one wouii use
"a Wl-ren teGiy- Ca, you not yet see
himi- or 4 her,e. gray bird with a ta-d.
Ing seak. and then the other ran voult
come up with s. meboiy lying teai with
his iife5lOod foving away. or A init
Loaf 4, HE gttarIsh to~t fha TuVL lav
dreaming II vas too easy. sail the
GeIefal And thea there vas a ~ eel
souled old professor who could Iever
fad IL IN his heart 70 call a MAJ down
n ke asked you what color fame a GER
tain ga gave out and you said yellow
he would remark that the answer was
very good but wouldn't il have bean
letter 10 cay blue? And the Question 81
cadet Immediately agreed hat blue
would have teen an infinitely better
answer Yet this man was no fool a.
Gen Howe expresse1 IL. Tor ore day Whea
be was going over q treyfui Of mir erals
and saying thai this was a piece Of gran te
and this was a piece Of marble. he came
UPON a VANISHED and fixed up parthrie
~ an old brick which some cadet hal
slipped into the tray
he old man picked u 10 said Gen
Howe. and exclaimed. and this Young
men, IL q piece 81 impudence. 30 Sill
they were good teachers and when they
demonstrated anything you could under
stand them. They weren't like those
Lrofessors OF whom Il might be said that
all they have done h 10 convince you that
they know ~ much more than you that
4 Nas very foolish 10 ask the question
Ge1 Howe became serious after this
improvements In our warfare are ne~ss-
eAry, said he. and we must have a. rood