Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-11
Cadets Who Became Noted.

ONLY one among the forty-siX cadets
has cast dishonor upon the service. and
that Is Oberlin NJ. Carter, who was tried
BY court-martial, dismissed and sentenced
TO ten years imprisonment at Fort Leav-
enworth, from which he was released
three years ago. Carter was one of the
most brilliant men ever known to the
academy. and l believe that he and Gen.
Irving Hale of the class of "a have the
the honor men are not the only gradu-
stes who have distinguished themselves.
Indeed. some of the most famous west
Pointers. like Sheridan and Custer, were
tail-enders; while Gen. Grant and Rufus
Ingalls, uuartermaster general of the
Union army during the civil war, stood
twenty-three and thirty. respectively, in
q class of thirty-nine members. Gen.
Sherman was sixth and Gen. Thomas
twelfth in the class of 1910. which grad
uated forty-two cadets. Albert Sidney
Johnston was number eight in class of
forty-one. Jefferson Davis stood twenty
third in a class OF thirty-three. Robert
+. Lee was second and Joseph E. john
ston twelfth in class OF thirty-nine.
.Longstreet stood fifty-four in a class Of
hfty-six. Hancock was eighteenth. Simon
B. Buckner eleventh and Pleasonton sew
enth in class of forty-four. Stonewall
Jackson stood seventeenth, SLOVENIAN
thirty third, and Pickett, of the famous
charge at Gettysburg. fifty-ninth and the
Mcclellan stood number two. Harry"
Heth, another gallant Confederate, was
number thirty-eight and the tail-ender
in the class Of 1S47
The total number of the graduates since
the beginning in 1902 is 4.742 and the
following facts about the careers of some
Of them are taken from Col. Larneds
compilation:
What Graduates Have Become.
This academy has given to our coun-
try one President of the United States,
one president of the Confederate States,
three presidential candidates, two vice
presidential candidates, one ambassador
fourteen ministers plenipotentiarIes
Iwenty-seven members of Congress- eight
presidential electors. sixteen governors of
states and territories. one bishop, four
t1een judges, seventeen mayors OF cities,
lforty-six presidents and fourteen regents
and chanceilors of colleges and universe
ties, fourteen chief engineers of states.
eighty-seven presidents OF railroads and
other corporations, sixty-three chief en-
Gneers of railroads and public works
eight bank presidents, two hundred at
torneys and counselors at law, twenty
clereymen fourteen physicians one hun
dred and twenty-five merchants. seventy
seven manufacturers. thirty editors, one
hundred and seventy-nine authors, be-
sides architects, farmers. planters and
professions.
"A graduate of the Military Academy
was one of the American delegates to
the FIRST Hague conference; another was
member OF an arbitration tribunal
which settled a dispute between England
and Russia. and two Of the seven dele
gates to the recent conference at The
Hague belong to the alumni"
Democracy at West Point
One OF the habitual objections that has
been raised to the academy by the mar
row-minded 10 that it is "a nursery Of
aristocrats." I have heard demagogues
in Congress declaim about the dudes"
that are being pampered and paraded at
the expense OF taxpayers, but il there
was ever q place where the doctrine of
equality is vigorously enforced, It Is
among the cadets at West Point. II there
was ever place where vanity and con-
ceit are extinguished in the heart of a
boy, and where manlineSs truth and