At last the four years' arduous course at West Point Academy was finished. Who of us that have been through the study, drill and training at that admirable institution can forget a single day of the eventful term spent there ? With what timidity we made our way up the long, sloping hill to the array of buildings and presented our "appointment," which some of us had brought all the way from the Pacific slope or the Gulf, picturing in our mind what West Point looked like, and how we would conduct ourselves after we got there?