Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corps of instructors, nearly seventy in number, or one instructor for every three cadets, consists principally of naval officers detailed for the purpose. The course is six years, four years at the academy and two years at sea. Practically the course is divided into periods of two years each. The first two years are devoted to giving the cadet-general instruction that will enable him to pursue his subsequent studies with greater facility. The succeeding two years are devoted to professional subjects, seamanship, gunnery, etc. The two years at sea are spent in sea-going ships and are devoted...
...important branches of navigation and gunnery are by no means neglected. Every cadet has practical experience in the use of great guns. A certain amount of target practice at long range being required; while frequent drills keep him ready in their handling. Much attention is devoted to the machine guns of recent invention. Their manipulation is carefully taught. In navigation, the practice cruises during the summer months afford opportunity for the application of the theoretical navigation "learned of books...
...learning does merit receive so directly its reward as in the Naval and Military Academies. In no others is there so powerful a stimulant to stand high. For not only a man's rank, but also his very retention in the service depends upon his standing as a cadet. This, of course, reacts to make the standard at these academies very high. So that, of late, complaints have been made that the Naval Academy in particular was becoming a school of general science, and losing too much its characteristic peculiarities as a naval school. But we think this complaint...
...afraid that I have dwelt entirely upon the dark side of cadet life. To tell you the truth, I am even now in confinement, and though that is no unusual thing with me, it actually had a depressing effect. If you would know the other side of the story, ask some summer visitor, who will tell you that a cadet is the happiest and merriest of mortals, and as for his surroundings, why lrving failed signally in his description of the grand old river and its legendary hills...
...publish to-day a very interesting and factions letter giving an account of the trials and tribulations of a West Point cadet, written by a-former member of the junior class at Harvard. The rigorous training of a cadet at a military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service...