The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . post. Here theinfantry battaliondrills and dress-pa-rades occur. TheChapel, a stone build-ing with a Greek por-tico,wasbuilt in 1836,and the ReformedEpiscopal form ofworship is conductedthere by the postchaplain. It is smalland old-fashioned,and peculiarlyadorned. The mostinteresting objectsare the cases of cap-tured flags. Among the trees is the camp-groundof the cadets, where they live in tents from gradu-ation day in June until September. Beyond thisshady camp-ground rises the grassy parapet ofFort Clint
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . post. Here theinfantry battaliondrills and dress-pa-rades occur. TheChapel, a stone build-ing with a Greek por-tico,wasbuilt in 1836,and the ReformedEpiscopal form ofworship is conductedthere by the postchaplain. It is smalland old-fashioned,and peculiarlyadorned. The mostinteresting objectsare the cases of cap-tured flags. Among the trees is the camp-groundof the cadets, where they live in tents from gradu-ation day in June until September. Beyond thisshady camp-ground rises the grassy parapet ofFort Clinton. The present fortification was madein 1857, and is an object lesson in the science offield fortification. The battalion is quartered in agreat quadrangular, castellated structure of Tudorarchitecture, the four stories of which contain176 rooms. It was completed in 1849, the Aca-demic building in 1893, and these, with Grant or WEST POINT, EW YORK. MILITARY COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS 97 Mess Hall, are the principal buildings on the post,(See also West Point, in these Supplements). /^-^^. CADETS QUARTERS, MILITARY ACADEMY. Cadet Appointntents. Each Congressional district andterritory—also the District of Columbia—is entitled tohave one cadet at the academy, the cadet to be named bythe Re(sresentative in Congress. There are also ten ap-pointments at large, specially conferred by the Presidentof the United States. The number of students is thuslimited to 367. Appointments are usually made one yearin advance of date of admission, and may be made eitherafter competitive examination or given direct, at theoption of the Representative. The Congressman, shouldhe desire, may nominate a legally qualified alternate, whowill be examined with the regular nominee and admittedin the event of his success and the latters failure to passthe prescribed preliminary examinations. Appointees to the Military Academy must be between17 and 22 years of age, free from any infirmity, and able topass a care
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