Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — West Point Victims. [ARTICLE]

West Point Victims.

When five cadets were expelled from West Point for gross and persistent insubordination they Invoked public sympathy for their blighted careers, and they have announced that they intend to have Congress restore them over the beads of the authorities. But ten of their comrades have Just been dropped for deficiency in their studies, and nobody seems to have begun any agitation In their behalf, yet a failure in studies Is a small matter tn determining the quality of an officer oompared with a failure in the prime military essential of discipline. Grant was not a distinguished scholar at West Point, but be learned how to command by learning bww to obey. Wnen a young man has been at ths Military Academy for three years without mastering that elementary condition of the military life it is plats that he has mistaken his profestooa.