UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT. 
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facing the river. At the head-quarter office are located the offices of 
the Superintendent and Military Staff. The remainder of the Academy 
buildings are scattered about all over the Government property. They 
consist chiefly of barracks, hospital, and married quarters for the 
enlisted men, and a school for their children ; magazine, laboratory, 
guard houses, storehouses, stables, workshops, laundry, &c. The most 
inaccessible building is the Observatory, which is on a hill 1000 feet 
above " the plain 33 and one mile from the Academy. 
The Staff. 
The staff is a large one, numbering 66 all told for 265 cadets. [The 
Royal Military Academy Staff at Woolwich numbers 31 for say 240 
cadets]. The head of the United States Military Academy is the 
Superintendent, who is Governor of the Academy and Commandant of 
the "Post ” (as it is called) of West Point; his staff is composed as 
follows :— 
Military Staff — 
1 Lieut.-Colonel Commandant of Cadets. 
4 Lieutenants Commanding Companies of Cadets. 
1 Lieutenant and Adjutant. 
1 Captain and Quarter-Master. 
1 Captain and Assistant Quarter-Master. 
1 Lieutenant, Officer of Police. 
1 Post Surgeon. 
1 Assistant Surgeon. 
The senior Quarter-Master appears to combine several duties, as his 
full designation is “ Treasurer, Quarter-Master and Commissary of 
Cadets, Post Commissary of Subsistence, and Post Treasurer ! 33 The 
Lieut.-Colonel Commandant is also the Instructor in Tactics, and the 
four Lieutenants Commanding Companies are assistant instructors in 
the same subject. These five officers are not counted below. 
Academic Staff — 
8 Professors. 
8 Assistant Professors. 
27 Instructors. 
8 Assistant Instructors. 
1 Officer in charge of Observatory. 
1 “ Master of the Sword.” 
1 Teacher of Music. 
Professors have the “ assimilated” rank of Lieut.-Colonel, and those 
whose service at the Academy exceed ten years, that of Colonel. 
The Assistant Professors, Instructors, Assistant Instructors, and officer 
in charge of Observatory are all commissioned officers and, at the present 
time, are drawn from the different arms of the service in these propor¬ 
tions :—Engineers, 5 ; Ordnance, 2 ; Artillery, 15 ; Cavalry, 11 ; and 
Infantry, 11. The Lieut.-Colonel Commandant is an Infantry officer. 
Of the Lieutenants Commanding Companies, one belongs to the Artil- 
