Payette County ID Archives News.....W. H. Moss Returns to  West Point August 23, 1907
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Payette Independent August 23, 1907
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, August 23, 1907
 
W. H. MOSS RETURNS TO WEST POINT
 
W. H. Moss left for the east Monday morning on his way back to West Point to 
resume his studies at the United States military academy, expecting to stop 
for a few days in Pittsburg to visit friends, as his summer leave of absence 
from the military academy does not expire until August 28.  Mr. Moss has two 
more years at the academy and will not have an opportunity to come home again 
before leaving the school as the cadets after finishing the third school year 
are detailed to field duty during the summer months.  At the time of entering 
school they enlist for a term of eight years and those who graduate are given 
commissions as second lieutenants in the regular army which they hold during 
the remaining years of their terms of enlistment.
 
The course of study given at the academy is of course especially adapted to 
the needs of military service, but it should not be supposed that those who 
wish to return to civil life have been wasting their time, as the general 
educational advantages offered at the academy are excellent, while each 
graduate has been given a thorough course in civil engineering, qualifying him 
for all classes of work in that line.
 
Speaking of the work at the famous military institution before leaving for the 
east, Mr. Moss said that the discipline there, of which so much is heard, is 
far from being a joke, as many young man quickly finds out upon entering the 
school, and were it not for the end to be attained no one would look back upon 
the time spent there with much regret that it was a thing of the past.
 
During the month devoted to school work it is study and drill in unbroken 
routine from six o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night, and then 
many of the cadets would often rather have a little more time before going to 
bed in which to prepare for the next day's rigorous recitations.  As Mr. Moss 
explained, however, there is a pleasant social side to the academy life, 
although no time is allowed for over indulgence, while field sports are 
properly encouraged.
 
By the rules of the academy all cadets stand upon an equal footing while at 
West Point.  The government make them an allowance of about $50 a month from 
the time of their enlistment and from this they must pay for their board, 
clothes, and some minor expenses, and as they are allowed to receive no money 
from other sources, the millionaire's son can have no more luxuries than the 
poorest student at the institution.

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