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Show WEST POINT. The hundredth anniversary of the founding of West Point academy was duly celebrated. It was right too. It is a great school. It is a most useful school. Its chief attraction is that it puts every student on his honor never to do an unmanly act, and a breach of that trust is held to be in the nature of an unpardonable offense. The effect is seen in the record of the long list of graduates from that school. Not many have failed in honor, not many have been proved lacking in either physical or moral courage, while the percentage per-centage of those who have made their names immortal im-mortal is a very high one. It is clear, too, that many who have made great names for themselvos never would have done so except for their youthful training in that school. They acquired there, besides be-sides their training in war's vast art and the handling of armies, an impression which crystalized into a conviction that the only thing to fear is dishonor, and that conviction was sufficient to carry them grandly through camp and march and battle, keeping their souls serene under all tests. The students who will hereafter graduate from mBI that school will have additional incentives to strug- EjH gle for gieat names, for the names inscribed there D of other graduates will keep their hearts stirred IB with a desire to emulate the deeds of those illus- H trious men. SBl It is a great school, and even when men learn war B no more, it will be good to incorporate the nature jH of the instruction there into all schools that the iM ancient honor which made men dread disgrace more JHj than death may become as fixed in, this Republic M as ever it was in old Rome. flH |