Report of the Board of Ordnance and FortificationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 |
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... language to be stricken from the regular course of studies and taught only as a voluntary study to such cadets as , in the opinion of the Academic Board , are capable from previous acquirements of pursuing the study without detri- ment ...
... language to be stricken from the regular course of studies and taught only as a voluntary study to such cadets as , in the opinion of the Academic Board , are capable from previous acquirements of pursuing the study without detri- ment ...
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... language , ever made at West Point such proficiency as would enable them , or him , to carry on a conversation in Spanish . But whether that degree of proficiency has been attained or not , I am clearly of opinion that Spanish should be ...
... language , ever made at West Point such proficiency as would enable them , or him , to carry on a conversation in Spanish . But whether that degree of proficiency has been attained or not , I am clearly of opinion that Spanish should be ...
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... LANGUAGES . In the choice of professors for the Military Academy the practice has obtained of limiting the selection to officers of the Army . When the chair to be filled bears an intimate relation to the science of war , this is a ...
... LANGUAGES . In the choice of professors for the Military Academy the practice has obtained of limiting the selection to officers of the Army . When the chair to be filled bears an intimate relation to the science of war , this is a ...
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... Languages . Such a man would be the active agent of not only adding efficiency to the instruction in French and Spanish , but would naturally strengthen the instruction in English , which is now so indifferently regarded by the ...
... Languages . Such a man would be the active agent of not only adding efficiency to the instruction in French and Spanish , but would naturally strengthen the instruction in English , which is now so indifferently regarded by the ...
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... language need not turn its back to the foes of the study of that and other dead languages . Though dead , it yet speaketh , and is mighty to open dumb mouths , whether in French , Spanish , or English . Retain the French and the Spanish ...
... language need not turn its back to the foes of the study of that and other dead languages . Though dead , it yet speaketh , and is mighty to open dumb mouths , whether in French , Spanish , or English . Retain the French and the Spanish ...
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Academic Board acre allotment appointed appropriation approved Army Gun Factory artillery band barracks battery Bethlehem Iron Company Board of Ordnance Board of Visitors breech-loading building candidates cannon Captain carriages CARSON cast-iron cavalry cent charge Chief of Ordnance Colonel committee Congress contract Corps of Cadets defense duty Engineers examination expense explosive gelatine firing forgings Fort Pond Bay French furnished Government graduates gun cotton Harbor hoops horses Infantry ingot inspector instruction instructors Jersey June land Lieut manufacture ment miles modern languages mortar necessary officers Ordnance and Fortification Ordnance Department piece pounds practical prescribed present President professor projectiles proper purchase purpose railroad range recommended respectfully rifled SAMUEL W. T. LANHAM Sandy Hook Secretary Secretary of War September shells Spanish specimens steel studies Superintendent supply tion tract trials tube U. S. Army U. S. Military Academy United Watervliet Arsenal West Point West Point Foundry
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Page 10 - The corps of cadets shall consist of one from each Congressional district, one from each Territory, one from the District of Columbia, and ten from the United States at large.
Page 29 - To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 12 - Academy, except in cases where, by reason of death or other cause, a vacancy occurs which cannot be provided for by such appointment in advance ; but no pay or other allowance shall be given to any appointee until he shall have been regularly admitted, as herein provided; and all appointments shall be conditional until such provisions...
Page 103 - I, AB, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty of the United States, paramount to any and all allegiance, sovereignty, or fealty I may owe to any State, county, or country whatsoever; and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers, and the rules and articles governing the armies of the United States.
Page 103 - ... rejected : 1. Feeble constitution and muscular tenuity ; unsound health, from whatever cause ; indications of former disease ; glandular swellings, or other symptoms of scrofula. 2. Chronic cutaneous affections, especially of the scalp. 3. Severe injuries of the bones of the head ; convulsions. 4. Impaired vision, from whatever cause; inflammatory affections of the eyelids; immobility or irregularity of the iris ; I'M u In.
Page 102 - Ten are also appointed at large. The appointments (except those at large) are made by the Secretary of War at the request of the Representative or Delegate In Congress from the District or Territory of which the appointee must be an actual resident.
Page 107 - ... perform ; and in case there shall not at the time be a vacancy in such arm or corps, he may, at the discretion of the President, be promoted and commissioned in it as an additional second lieutenant, with the usual pay and allowances of a second lieutenant, until a vacancy shall happen.
Page 107 - No Cadet is permitted to receive money, or any other supplies, from his parents, or from any person whomsoever, without the sanction of the Superintendent.
Page 3 - Board of Visitors to attend the annual examination of the Academy. Seven persons shall be appointed by the President, and two Senators and three members of the House of Representatives shall be designated as visitors by the...
Page 102 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all its enemies, foreign and domestic.