West Point / An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the Cadet
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- West Point An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the Cadet By Robert Charlwood Richardson, Jr. Captain, 2nd Cavalry, U. S. Army Late Assistant Professor of English, U. S. M. A. Foreword by Major-General Hugh L. Scott Chief of Staff, U. S. Army G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1917
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- WEST POINT
- CHAPTER I IN THE DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER II THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
- CHAPTER III THE REALIZATION OF AN ARCHITECT’S DREAM
- IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE REGULAR ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES WHO FELL IN BATTLE DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THEIR SURVIVING COMRADES
- CHAPTER IV THE POWERS THAT BE
- CHAPTER V “BEAST BARRACKS”
- CHAPTER VI BENDING THE TWIG
- CHAPTER VII THE DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND
- CHAPTER VIII GROWING MUSCLES
- CHAPTER IX LESSONS FROM MARS
- CHAPTER X HENCE, LOATHED MELANCHOLY!
- CHAPTER XI STRENGTHENING THE MORAL FIBER
- CHAPTER XII SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES
- CHAPTER XIII THE SPIRIT OF WEST POINT
- APPENDIX (From the Official Register of the United States Military Academy—1916) WAR DEPARTMENT Information Relative to the Appointment and Admission of Cadets to the United States Military Academy (1916 Edition. Revised Annually.) [Communications relating to matters connected with the Military Academy should be addressed to The Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D. C.] THE CORPS OF CADETS
- APPOINTMENTS
- REGULAR EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
- (a) REQUIRED.
- CHARACTER OF EXAMINATIONS
- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
- TABLE FOR PHYSICAL PROPORTION FOR HEIGHT, WEIGHT, AND CHEST MEASUREMENT
- MENTAL EXAMINATION
- European History (1453-1789).
- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
- VACATIONS AND LEAVES OF ABSENCE
- PAY OF CADETS
- DEPOSIT PRIOR TO ADMISSION
- PROMOTION AFTER GRADUATION
- ACADEMIC DUTIES
- THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR
- DEPARTMENT OF TACTICS
- ALL CLASSES
- TEXTBOOKS
- BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- ISSUED TO FIRST CLASS BEFORE GRADUATION
- DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MILITARY ENGINEERING
- FIRST CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- SECOND CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
- THIRD AND FOURTH CLASSES
- TEXTBOOKS
- DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY
- SECOND CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING
- THIRD AND SECOND CLASSES
- DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES
- THIRD, SECOND, AND FIRST CLASSES
- FRENCH
- THIRD CLASS
- SPANISH
- SECOND AND FIRST CLASSES
- THIRD CLASS
- DEPARTMENT OF LAW
- FIRST CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL MILITARY ENGINEERING, MILITARY SIGNALING AND TELEGRAPHY
- FOURTH, THIRD, AND FIRST CLASSES
- TEXTBOOKS
- BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- DEPARTMENT OF ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY
- FIRST CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY HYGIENE
- THIRD CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS
- REFERENCE BOOKS
- DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY
- FOURTH CLASS
- TEXTBOOKS—ENGLISH
- TEXTBOOKS—HISTORY
- THE LIBRARY
- SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
- A DICTIONARY OF CADET SLANG
- FOOTNOTES:
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