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Colonel H. L. Scott, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, lectured in the Union last night on "West Point." He began by saying that Harvard prepares its graduates for all the arts of peace, West Point for the arts of war; but the prime object of both is to make cultivated...
Colonel Hugh Lenox Scott, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, will deliver a lecture on "West Point" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
Upon graduating from West Point in 1876, Colonel Scott entered the cavalry service, and in each of the three succeeding years went with expeditions among the Indians in the far West. For twelve years previous to 1891 he did routine duty among these people, having charge of an investigation of the ghost dance disturbances. At the opening of the Spanish War Colonel Scott had attained the rank of adjutant-general, and in this capacity served in Cuba throughout the disturbance. During the governorship of Major-General Wood, Colonel Scott acted as chief of staff, and in 1903 went...
Colonel Scott, who lectures this evening in the Union, has spent more than thirty years in the regular army. He knows West Point from his life there as cadet and superintendent, but he is also thoroughly acquainted with the American army from service in this country and in the insular territories. He is a student as well as a soldier, and his books on Indian life and languages are valuable contributions to native anthropological knowledge...
...West Point is unique among the higher educational institutions of the country as one in which the elective system has had little influence. In a little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline...