Educationl Objectives of the U.S. Military Academy

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27. oldal - An opening is always left for this species of prevarication, when the literal and grammatical signification of a sentence is different from the popular and customary meaning. It is the wilful deceit that makes the lie; and we wilfully deceive when our expressions are not true in the sense in which we believe the hearer to apprehend them...
27. oldal - ... the truth is expected. Or the obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Which consequences consist, either in some specific injury to particular individuals, or in the destruction of that confidence, which is essential to the intercourse of human life : for which latter reason, a lie may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.
25. oldal - Men may be inexact or even untruthful, in ordinary matters, and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates, or even the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellowmen, and the honor of his government...
27. oldal - A LIE is a breach of promise : for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another, tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected. , Or the obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Which consequences consist, either in some specific injury to particular individuals, or in the destruction of that confidence which is essential to the intercourse...
14. oldal - The drill during the summer mouths is sufficient to give the cadets healthful exercise, and no more; but during the winter this resource fails, and their spirits and activity fail with it. It is proposed, therefore, that a plain building, merely sufficient to afford shelter, be erected, and that a systematic exercise of the whole person be there diligently practiced during the winter, under a gymnastieal teacher, who shall be provided to superintend it.
2. oldal - Perhaps without exaggeration the West Point Academy might be said to have decided, next to the navy, the result of the war. The works at New Orleans were simple in character, and as far as they were due to engineering skill were directed by Major Latour, a Frenchman : but the war was already ended when the battle of New Orleans was fought. During the critical campaign of 1814, the West Point engineers doubled the capacity...
21. oldal - The training of the athletic field, which produces in a superlative degree the attributes of fortitude, self-control, resolution, courage, mental agility and, of course, physical development, is one completely fundamental to an efficient soldiery,' General MacArthur said
13. oldal - Unhurt, through every toil, in every clime. Toil, and be strong. By toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone; The greener juices, are by toil subdu'd, Mellow'd and subtiliz'd, the vapid old 65 Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

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