UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT. 
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last three years of the West Point course, learning his duty with his 
regiment, than studying Differential Calculus, Eclectic Physiology, 
Civil Engineering and the like at the Academy. 
There are several other points it might be interesting to touch upon, 
such as the amount of money contributed by the parents of cadets 
towards the support of the Royal Military Academy and what it costs 
them, on an average, to prepare their sons for the entrance examination, 
and pay for their outfits, both as cadets and officers, also the com¬ 
parative pay of officers in the British and United States Armies. The 
time and trouble taken by the West Point Board of Visitors might be 
favourably commented upon, but even if the Woolwich Board of Visitors 
were ready to follow their example it is not probable that they would 
spend their fortnight of inspection in a Woolwich Hotel ! Space does 
not admit of further comparisons, so the writer will conclude by hoping, 
if he may be allowed to say so, that when any officer of the American 
Army visits the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich he will receive 
the same cordial welcome, and be given the same facilities for enquiry 
which were afforded to the writer when he visited the United States 
Military Academy at West Point. 
Halifax, N.S., 
23rd May, 1892. 
