surest military faculty is that which is instant to search them out and apply them. With trained men to lead the nation, there need be no fear of what the people will do in the day of peril. It has been the high privilege of West Point to give the nation such leaders, and their renown now illumines the noblest pages in our country's annals. Let us so guard and strengthen the venerable Academy that, with other trials, other soldiers will come from its halls ready to defend the Republic and add new luster to the glory which, as a proud heritage of West Point, surrounds the names of Thomas and Sheridan, Sherman and Grant.

CHAS. F. MANDERSON.
SAML. W. T. LANHAM.
JOHN M. CARSON.
FRANK A. O'BRIEN.

JAMES T. MURFEE.

JAMES A. WAYMIRE.

DAVID W. PAYNE.

THEODORE S. PECK.

ROBERT O. FULLER.
JAMES L. PUGH.

JULIUS C. BURROWS.

JOSEPH A. SCRANTON.