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28. ACADEMY (The Military), Importance of.—

I have ever considered that establishment
as of major importance to our country, and in whatever I could do for it,
I viewed myself as performing a duty only.
* * * The real debt of the institution is
to its able and zealous professors.—
To Jared Mansfield. Washington ed. vii, 203.
(M. 1821)