Identifier: thevolunteersold00loga (find matches)
Title: The volunteer soldier of America
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886 Logan, Cornelius Ambrose, 1836-1899
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Chicago and New York : R. S. Peale & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t regular intervals, but, generally speaking,their reports have been favorable, and many of them flat-tering to the school. If objections have been made oralterations proposed, they have more particularly relatedto the system or to the discipline of the Academy. Theidea involved in the creation of the institution has main-tained its place in the popular opinion, and has success-fully resisted every assault brought to bear upon it. Thisidea is subjected to two chief constructions: the oneregarding a special education in any and all of the variedoccupations of life as the prime essential of excellence —the siummtm boniun of all desire; and the other lookingupon it more in the nature of a basis upon which aninherent talent or fitness may rear the future structure.The first of these represents the thing itself; the second,an auxiliary of the thing. The preponderating sentimenthas been, and now is, in support of the first construction,one scarcely less pernicious in consequence than mis-
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The Military Academy at West Point.I. Cadets Mess Hall. 2. Fortifications on the Hudson LEGISLATION CONCERNING MILITAR V ACADEMY. 22 J taken in conception. Within the healthful limits of thesecond are to be found safety and the road to highachievements and brilliancy of results. Since the establishment of the institution up to a veryrecent period its friends have not been bashful in claim-ing such legislation, from time to time, as appeared tothem essential to the success of the project. The legisla-tion in its favor has been generous, no reasonable sugges-tion having been ignored nor proper demand refused. It does not fall within the scope of the present volumeto go into a description of the school at West Point, norto detail the discipline, branches and course of study, etc.Those desiring such information will find it easily accessi-ble. The present purpose, so far as it has to deal withthe subject of military education in the United States,,will be sufficiently subserved by adding

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