. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad guide book . It is, in all respects, calculated to developthe ]>hysical powers, and cultivate order among the cadets. The departmentsof study embrace a thorough course of all English brnnches, collegiate and pre-paratory courses, together with thorough courses in civil and mining engineer- RAIL KOAD (UlPE HOOK. :-!8 intj. Tlie lirealost tli()r()ii,ij;linoss is cxacttMl in all iinniclus of study, and nocadet is allowed to j^i-aduate except after tiiorouuli examination in all thehranehes of study in liis respective classes. Tiie Academy is sup
. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad guide book . It is, in all respects, calculated to developthe ]>hysical powers, and cultivate order among the cadets. The departmentsof study embrace a thorough course of all English brnnches, collegiate and pre-paratory courses, together with thorough courses in civil and mining engineer- RAIL KOAD (UlPE HOOK. :-!8 intj. Tlie lirealost tli()r()ii,ij;linoss is cxacttMl in all iinniclus of study, and nocadet is allowed to j^i-aduate except after tiiorouuli examination in all thehranehes of study in liis respective classes. Tiie Academy is supplied hy the State of Pennsylvania with a hattery of sixirtins, and Iiv the United States (Jovernnient with the Springfield rifle, of tlicReniin,e:ton i)attern. The Fnited vStates flovernment has, for many years, de-tailed at the Academy an oflicer of the regnlar army to aid in the military de-partment, <. H. Harnett, of the Fifth Artillery, is at present as-signed to diilv here. Tliis institution resemhles, in its ciuirse of study and .i;en-. MILITARY ACADEMY. eral regulations, the United States Military Academy, and it oflers similar ad-vantages with that institution to the nuiltitude of those who cannot gain admis-sion for their sons at West Point. The graduates are thorough scholars, andgenerally emerge from their school life in rol)ust health and fine si)eeimens ofmanly vigor. The President of the Academy is Colonel Theodore Hyatt, to whom undoubt-edly the institution owes the great reputation and success it has securedthroughout the United States. Col. Hyatt is also Professor of Mathematics andInstructor in Tactics, and his assistants, both on the academic and militarystaffs, are instructors of the highest reputation in their special academic staffcontains two graduates, and the militarv staff one graduateof the United States Militarv Academy. The trustees of the institution einl)racesome of the most prominent men of Pennsylva
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