The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-06
THIRD DISTRICT BOYS
GIVEN RARE CHANGE
CONGRESSMAN NORTON AR.
RANGES FOR COMPETITIVE
EXAMINATION AT MINOT.
Free Education at u S. Naval and
Military Academies.

Congressman P. ID. Norton has been
requested by the Secretary of War to
nominate a principal candidate and
two alternates to take the examina-
tion for admission to the United
States Military Academy at West
Point. The principal nominated and
the alternates will be given an exam
ination under the supervision of the
Secretary of War at St. Paul, Minn.,
on the first Tuesday in April, 1914,
and the successful candidate will be
admitted to West Point in June, 1914
Congressman Norton has also been re-
quested by the Secretary of the Navy
to nominate a principal and three al
ternates to take the next examination
to be held for admission to the Unit
ed States Naval Academy at Annap-
oils, Maryland. The principal nomi-
mated and the alternates will be CIV
en- an examination by the Secretary of
the Navy at Dickinson, Minot and Will
liston on the third Tuesday in Febru-
ary, 1914. Candidates for admission
to West Point must be between the
ages of seventeen and twenty-five
academy. Candidates for admission
/ w 1llIldPOliS iIuoC NC UtGWcSIl CIlc ages
of sixteen and twenty at the time of
taking the entrance examination.
Candidates to be eligible to one of
these appointments must be residents
of the third congressional district
In order that every boy in the third
congressional district wishing an ap-
pointment to either West Point or to
Annapolis may have an equal oppor-
tunity to secure one Of the appoint
ments to be made by Congressman
Norton he has arranged to have held
at Minot on Tuesday, November 25th,
1913, beginning at 9 a. M, a prelim-
mary examination to determine the
boys to whom the appointment should
be given. This examination is open to
any boy in the third congressional dis
trict and will be entirely under the su-
pervision Of an examining committee
consisting of President Frank l.. Nc
Vey of the State University; Superin-
tendent P. S. Berg of the Dickinson
High School, and President A. G..
Crane of the State Normal School at
Minot. The written examination will
include all the common school branch
es and all the common school branches
and in addition Algebra and Plane Ge-
ometry. The examining committee in
charge Of the preliminary examination
will in selecting the boys to be ap-
pointed take into consideration the
proficiency of the candidates in the
subjects covered by the usual entrance
examina atoms to the academies and al
SO the physical condition of the can
didates, their general character and
reputation in their respective COM
munities, their aptitude for athletics
and the manly qualities that are re-
iquired to best fit them for the posi-
tions they might reasonably be expect
ed to occupy in the Army and Navy,
In the preliminary examination the
examining committee will as nearly
as feasible follow the underlying plan
of the Rhodes Scholarship examina-
tions, and so that all the candidates
may at the same time personally meet
the members of the examining COM
mittee the examination will be held
only at Minot. The boys who are the
successful ones in the preliminary ex-
animation will be certified by the ex-
amining committee to Congressman
Norton who will make their appoint
ments according to the Secretary Of
War and the Secretary of the Navy.