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of teaching by recent graduates. He then points
out that there is more permanency in the aca-
demic staff than is commonly supposed. OF the II
heads Of departments permanent and are
detailed for periods of years.
Secretary Baker says, in part, concerning
criticism No. 4:
Nothing short Of omniscience can analyze the
intricate, multiplied and scattered activities of
the war department during the recent war at
home and in the field, give just weight TO the
circumstances surrounding these activities and
apportion either the credit for success or the
blame for mistake as between the persons en-
gagged in those activities. The handful Of West
Point graduates, the larger handful of Regular
Army officers drawn from civil life, reserve Off
GERS, officers of the National Guard, and the
vastly larger body of officers hastily instructed in
officers training camps altogether comprised APP
proximately 2050O0 men, of whom the West
Point graduates numbered 3,0S1. In the per-
Torrance Of their work these officers were aided
by an immense body Of civilians-captains of
industry, masters of business; scientific technical,
commercial, Industrial and all other kinds OF ex-
perts worked side by side 1t is my settled con-
viction that the commercial and industrial or
ganization Of America during the war a
colossal success; but whether 1t was or not, the
result was not an outcome of the system of edu-
cation at West Point. The thing was done by the
nation and all the varied processes by which our
citizens are trained contributed"
He explains why federal statutes and govern
ment regulations produce red-tape; he admits
that the system may be slow at times, but holds
that conservations of public safety require that
these transactions be matters of record and that
the person responsible for decision should make
the decision His explanation Of passing the buck
is that there is as to each question a proper
person to decide 1t; to ask the wrong person can
have but one or the other of two results, either
to be referred to the right person or get an I'M
oil Ia Gfyhf iner
not new, but old. Then he says:
1.-THE comment seems to imply a belief,
President Eliot's part, that graduates of West
Point have not shown UP well in the military
history Of the United States 1t is incredible that
he could really entertain this belief In every
war in which the United States has been engaged
since the academy was established, its graduates
have been conspicuous alike for heroism and sue
cess. The following list is made up of names
which illustrate American history. They are
graduates Of the Military academy and they are
men whose memory teach our children to
revere:
Indian wars: Custer, Croobe, Wright, Macken-
zie, Cooke, A. s. Johnston. jefferson Davis Aber-
crcmbie Casey, Mccall, Candy, Rains.
Mexican war: Swift Sherman, Totten Bragg.
r. Z. Lee, Mcclellan, BeauregLrd, Huger Reno,
Grant, Jefferson Davis, Early.
Civil war: General officers In Union Army, 294
in Confederate Army 151 Grant, Sherman Sheri-
dan, Schofield Buell., Burnside Gilmore, Halleck.
Hancock, Heintzeman, Hooker. Howard, Hum
phreys, Fitzpatrick Lyon. Meade, Merritt Nc
Clellan, Mcdowell Ord. Pope Porter, Reynolds,
Rcsecrans, Slocum, Thomas Warrop- Wright.
Bragg, Cooper Hood, A. S. Johnston.
J. f. Johnston, r. r. Lee, Kirby Smith, Anderson
Buckner Early, Ewei. Hardee. A. p. Hill, D. H.
Hill, Holmes, Jackson S. ID. Lee, Longstreet |
Pemberton, Polk, A. p. Stewart, Wheeler, F1t5 |
Lee, Lowell, Pickett J. e. b. Stuart Van Dorm.
Spanish war: Otis, King, Fitz Lee, Wheeler, |
Bell, Pershing, Lawton. Barry. |
Explorers, builders of railroads, canals light
houses, etc; Swift Totten Mcclellan, Poe, ABB |
bott Warren. Humphreys, Talcott, Comstock, |
Bache Wheeler Wright, Whistler Sidell Porter,
Wilson, Greene, Du Pont Ludlow Meigs, Griffin, |
Holden. Black, Goethals, Sibert, GalIlard, Casey.
Hodges.
Public life: Grant, Polk, Mcclellan, Hancock
Porter, Buckner, Lee, Longstreet Du Pont Briggs
"World war: Pershing March, Bliss, Billiard
Lggett, Cocktails Summerall, Jervey Scott
Graves Bidde. McAndrew, Black. Richardson.
Common, ct al"