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conditioned not upon the adequacy of the complaint 

 that you did not have apparatus enough, but upon 

 what you have done with the insufficient apparatus 

 you had. Remember that and remember also and 

 this especially applies to the higher officers that 

 you must supplement in your calling the work of 

 the surgeon with the work of the administrator. 

 You must be doctors and military men and able 

 administrators. 



AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE 

 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

 MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, JUNE 

 n, 1902 



Colonel Mills, graduates of West Point, and you, 

 the Men and Women who are drawn to them by 

 ties of kinship, or by the simple fact that you are 

 Americans, and therefore of necessity drawn to 

 them : 



I am glad to have the chance of saying a word 

 to you to-day. There is little need for me to say 

 how well your performance has squared with the 

 prophetic promise made on your behalf by the great 

 est of Americans, Washington. This institution has 

 completed its first hundred years of life. During 

 that century no other educational institution in the 

 land has contributed as many names as West Point 

 to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens. 



Colonel Mills, I claim to be a historian, and I 

 speak simply in the spirit of one, simply as a reciter 



