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At that time the ordinary routine of drills， dress parades， etc.， is resumed； but drills in this order， viz.， from March 15th to April 1st instruction in the school of the company； in artillery tactics， as before described during April； and in infantry tactics， in the "School of the Battalion，" during May. The annual examination takes place in June. The following diary， made for the purpose of insertion here， will best explain what generally occurs during the month：
MEMORANDA.
Thursday， June 1， 1876.--Resumed white pants at 5.10P.M. Received Board of Visitors by a review at 5.10P.M. Examination begun at 9 A.M. First class， engineering. Salute of fifteen guns at meridian to Board of Visitors.
Friday， June 2.--First class， engineering finished.
Second class， philosophy commenced. Siege battery drill at 5.10 P.M.
Saturday， June 3.--Second class， philosophy continued.
Monday， June 5.--Light battery at 5.10 P.M. Ayearling lost his "white continuations." Plebes went to parade.
Tuesday， June 6.--Fourth class， entire in French.
Examination written. Second class， philosophy finished. First class， mineralogy and geology begun. Third class， mathematics begun. Battalion drill at 5.10 P.M.
Wednesday， June 7.--Second class turned out， marched to sea-coast battery at 11 A.M. Three detachments selected. Rest marched back and dismissed. Cavalry drill at 5.10 P.M. Six second-classmen turned out.
Plebes put in battalion.
Thursday， June 8.--Plebes put on guard. Pontoon bridging， 5.10 P. M.
Friday， June 9.--Battalion skirmish drill 5.10 P.M.
Deployed to front at double time. Second， fourth， and seventh companies reserve. Almost all manoeuvres at double time. Deployed by numbers and charged.
Marched in in line， band on right. Broke into column of companies to the left， changed direction to the right， obliqued to the left， moved forward and formed "front into line， faced to the rear." Arms inspected， ammunition returned. Dismissed.
Saturday， June 10.--Third class， mathematics finished.
Miss Philips sang to cadets in mess hall after supper.
First class， ordnance begun.
Sunday， June 11.--Graduating sermon by Hon.--， of Princeton， N. J.， closing "hime，" "When shall we meet again？" Graduating dinner at 2 P.M.
Monday， June 12.--Detail from first class to ride in hall. Use of sabre and pistol on horseback. First class， ordnance finished. Law begun.
Tuesday， June 13.--First class finished. Board divided into committees. Second class， chemistry begun.
Graduating parade. Corps cheered by graduates after parade. Hop in evening； also German； whole continuing till 3 A.M. Rumor has it two first-classmen， Slocum and Guilfoyle， are "found" in ordnance and engineering.
Wednesday， June 14.--Fourth class， mathematics begun.
Salute seventeen guns at 10 A.M. in honor of arrival at post of General Sherman and Colonel Poe of his staff. Graduating exercises from 11 A.M. till near 1 P.M. Addresses to graduates. Mortar practice and fireworks at night.
This ended the "gala" days at West Point in '76.
Thursday， June 15.--Usual routine of duties resumed.
Company drills in the afternoon from 5.10 to 6.10P.M. Rather unusual， but we're going to the Centennial.
Rumor has it we encamp Saturday the 17th for ten days.
Friday， June 16.--Dom Pedro， emperador de la Brasil estaba recibiado para un "review" a las cuatro horas y quarenta y cinco minutos. El embarcó por la ciudad de Nueva York inmediatemente Second class， chemistry finished. Third class， French begun.
Saturday， June 17.--Third class， French finished.
Third class， Spanish begun. "Camp rumor" not true.
Monday， June 19.--Moved into camp， aligned tent floors at 5 A. M. in the rain. Required by order to move in effects at 9 A. M.， and to march in and pitch tents at 12 M. Rained in torrents. Marched in， etc.， at 9 A.M. Effects moved in afterwards.
Rain ceased by 12 M. Marched in. Second class， tactics finished. Third class， Spanish finished.
Ordinarily as soon as the examination is over the third class take advantage of the two months'
furlough allowed them， while other classes go into camp. This encampment begins June 17th， or a day or two earlier or later， according to circumstances.
This brings me to the end of the first year. I have described camp life， and also， I observe， each of the remaining years of cadet life. On July 1st the plebes become the fourth class； the original fourth the third； the third， now on furlough， the second；and the second the first. I have given in an earlier part of my narrative the studies， etc.， of these several classes.
The plebe， or fourth class of the previous year， are now become yearlings， and are therefore in their "yearling camp." At the end of every month an extract from the class and conduct report of each cadet is sent to his parents or guardian for their information.
I insert a copy of one of these monthly reports.
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY，West Point， N. Y.， March 26， 1875.
EXTRACT from the Class and Conduct Reports of the MILITARY ACADEMY for the month of February， 1875， furnished for the information of Parents and Guardians，THIRD CLASS--Composed of 83 Members.
Cadet Henry O. FlipperWas， in Mathematics.........No. 48" French..............No. 48" Spanish，............No. 37
" Drawing.............No. 40
His demerit for the month is 2， and since the commencement of the academic half year， 23.
Robt. H. Hall， Captain 10th Infantry， Adjutant Military Academy.
REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY ACADEMY.
Par. 71.--When any Cadet shall have a total of numbers [of demerit] thus recorded， exceeding one hundred in six months， he shall be declared deficient in discipline.
Par. 153.--No Cadet shall apply for， or receive money， or any other supplies from his parents， or from any person whomsoever， without permission of the Superintendent.
Note.--The attention of Parents and Guardians is invited to the foregoing Regulations. The permission referred to in paragraph 153 must be obtained before the shipment to the cadet of the supplies desired.
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