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Show CIVILIANS IN THE ENGINEER CORPS "Washington, Sept. 19. For the first time since tho foundation of the military mili-tary academy, the engineer corps of the army4 has this, year failed to secure se-cure fro'm among the graduates of that Institution a sufficient number of young men to fill the existing vacancies va-cancies In the corps. It has been the rule that the men who gruduatod with tlo highest honors at West Point have chosen to enter the onglncor corps, rather than any other branch of the military ser'lcc But thlb year, so heavy wero the demands of very other oth-er branch that the war department decided 'that It could not Jn fairness 'allow tho engineer corjs t,o fill its ' t X quota by selection f,rom among the i if graduates i The consequence is that It is now 'J J necessary to admit no less than ten. jt civilians to this select corps and the ,; ? department Is preparing the stiffest 2 S sort of an entrance examination to ' fi which the candidates will be sub- I q jected. 3 |