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Show j. 0N THEIR HONOR. An article on the New West Point will be found In the current Popular Science Monthly. All young men should read it, that they may understand, in a little way at least, the difference in the training there and in ordinary universities; we mean the moral training. There are no masters mas-ters in West Point. There are professors, of course, "but as to discipline and all matters of moral obligation, the corps of cadets governs itself." No telling tales is permitted; the cadet is put upon his honor and this is so rigidly ex acted by the public opinion of the school, tnat it becomes second nature for the cadets to do nothing that would degrade them in the eyes of their class-mates. When they go out into the I world they know their names are recorded in thai institution; rhey know that if in after life the cast shadows upon that name or aureole it witi splendor, tbe light or the shadows, as may be, will encircle it with glory or with shame forever in that institution. Their names, too, are in the War Department and they know that those records rec-ords will be turned over and read for all time to come. Then, as a rule, while students in other colleges take long vacations, the cadet at West Point seldom leaves thee during his schooling except for a short furlough in the third year. Then the impression is ever upon the cadet that he has been set aside for special service to his country, and that the service, if need be, will require re-quire o him the utmost sacrifice that a mortal can make, but that if he is great enough and true enough, and the occasion 'comes, he will be insured in-sured immortality. This to a high mind cannot fail to make an impression which will keep the man an honorable man so long as he lives. The feeling engendered found beautiful expression expres-sion in the will of Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed leading a third or fourth desperate charge at Wilson Wil-son Creek. It stated in brief terms that all that he was in life he owed to the generosity of the Government that had educated him, hence what he possessed he willed to his country. Young men trained as they are at West Point and At napolis cannot help but be superior men; we mean superior to what they would have been if trained in any other school. They might have obtained a more profound schooling elsewhere, but the word superior we apply to their manhood. We havn seen plenty of exhibitions of it. The Mexican War supplied the first striking example. The men who made great names in our Civil War, it old enough, made them first in Mexico. Turning to that history, we find, designated for espaulul honor, the names of Grant, Sherman, Lee, Long-street Long-street and a hundred more who there gave notice what they would be on greater fields. Again there were startling exhibitions of the results of this same training in Manila Bay and off Santiago. San-tiago. In the Civil War and later in Indian Wars General Miles made a wonderful record. There is no brighter one in all the annals of ou' heroes. But had he been trained at West Point, he would never have done some things, never would have said some things that he did and said in the last four years of his service. The "self-conquest" "self-conquest" which he would have achieved at West Point would have made it impossible. The question is, should not our higher schools adopt the governing rules of West Point and Annapolis? Should not the classes be made to understand that they have been put upon their honor; that they are to make their own records, but that those records are to be kept, not only while they are in school but through all their lives thereafter, and that they will be reflected in light or in shade just as the students may make them? Scholars are plenty in our country, but great men, honorable men in the higher moral sense, are not very plenty; not nearly so plenty as there would have been had their souls been instilled with a higher sense of duty and of self-, f' H respect In their school days. f HI . i.fo |