A certificate which is accepted as satisfactory for one examination will be regarded as satisfactory for any other examination which may be set for entrance with the same class.

Any certificate accepted for one class and presented for a succeeding class should be accompanied with a full statement of the candidate's educational work in the interim, and both certificate and statement will be subject to careful scrutiny by the academic board. (Par. 57, Regls., U. S. M. A.)

All necessary papers, including a set of blank certificate forms (except Form III, which is sent only upon application), are furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army to each duly nominated candidate with his letter of appointment.

Any candidate who contemplates submitting a certificate shall, immediately upon receiving his appointment, forward to the Adjutant, United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., the names and addresses of all educational institutions from which he expects to obtain certificates, in order that information as to the status of those institutions may be procured before the arrival of the certificates.

Any appointee who can not accept appointment should so advise The Adjutant General promptly.

Date of admission. Candidates who fully conform to the requirements set forth in the preceding paragraphs, and who report in person to the superintendent on the first week day in July, before 12 o'clock, noon, shall be admitted as cadets of the United States Military Academy, and shall receive their warrants of appointment as soon as practicable.

Engagement to serve.-Immediately after reporting to the superintendent for admission, and before receiving their warrants of appointment, candidates are required to sign, in the presence of the superintendent, or of some officer deputed by him, engagements for service in the following form:

of the State (or Territory) of

aged

I, years, months, do hereby engage (with consent of my parent or guardian) that from the date of my admission as a cadet of the United States Military Academy I will serve in the Army of the United States for eight years unless sooner discharged by competent authority.

In the presence of

In the case of the Filipino cadets, the engagement shall be made to serve in the Philippine Scouts. (See sec. 1321, R. S.)

Oath of allegiance.-Each cadet shall, previous to his admission to the Academy, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the following form: I, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty of the United States paramount to any and all allegiance, sovereignty, or fealty I may owe to any State, county, or country whatsoever, and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers and the rules and articles governing the Armies of the United States. (Sec. 1320, R. S.)

Sworn to and subscribed at and, before me.

this

day of, nineteen hundred

No candidate shall be admitted who is less than 5 feet 4 inches in height, or who is deformed or afficted with any disease or infirmity which would render him unfit for the military service, or who has, at the time of presenting himself, any disorder of an infectious or immoral character.

All candidates must be unmarried.

Candidates are eligible for admission from the day they are 17 (or 19 if from the Regular Army or from the National Guard) until the day they become 22 years of age, on which latter day they are not eligible. The age requirements for all candi dates, as well as the service requirements for appointment from the Army and from the National Guard, are statutory and can not be waired.

The mental and physical requirements are the same for all candidates.

Each candidate must, on reporting at West Point, present a certificate showing successful vaccination within one year; or a certificate of two vaccinations, made at least a month apart, within three months.

PRELIMINARY PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.

Each candidate designated as principal or alternate for appointment as a cadet of the Military Academy should ascertain as soon as practicable whether cr not he has any physical defect that would disqualify him for admission or any that should be corrected by treatment before presenting himself for examination. For this purpose he should immediately cause himself to be exined by his family physician, and, if he desires, also by an Army surgeon at

the nearest military post. Such an examination should enable the candidate to decide whether to devote the time and possible expense which may be necessary for preparation for the entrance examination or to relinquish his appointment. The presentation by an appointee of his letter of conditional appointment, with a request for physical examination, or the presentation by a prospective appointee of a letter signed by a Member of Congress stating that the bearer is a candidate for cadet appointment and requesting that he be physically examined, will be sufficient authority for an Army surgeon at any military post to make the desired physical examination. Upon completion of this examination, the Army surgeon will inform the candidate of the result, and, in case a disability be found, whether such disability is believed to be permanent and disqualifying for military service, or whether it is believed to be of a temporary or curable nature. The examination is to be regarded as preliminary only and in no manner to affect the decision of the regular medical examining board.

CHARACTER OF INTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.

Candidates who, upon reporting, present evidence that they have been excused from the mental examination under the provisions of the certificate privilege, or as the result of having qualified mentally at a previous examination, are usually examined physically as soon as possible after reporting and are not required to wait until the schedule of mental examinations has been completed. The physical examination of all candidates taking the mental examination begins in the afternoon of the third day and is continued daily until completed. Hearing must be normal (20/20) in each ear for the "low whispered voice." The following-named conditions are causes for rejection: The total loss of an ear, marked hypertrophy or atrophy, or disfiguring deformity of the organ; atresia of the external auditory canal, or tumors of this part; acute or chronic suppurative otitis media, or chronic catarrhal otitis media; mastoiditis, acute or chronic; existing perforation of the membrana tympani from any cause what

ever.

Vision as determined by the official test types must not fall below 20/40 in either eye without glasses. If below 20/20, it must be correctable to 20/20 by proper glasses. Hyperopia, hyperopic astigmatism, or compound hyperopic astigmatism, with vision less than 20/20 without glasses is cause for rejection. Both eyes must be free from acute or chronic disease. In the record of all examinations the acuity of vision without glasses, and also with glasses when the acuity is less than 20/20, will be given for each eye separately; in the latter case, the correction will also be noted.

The following-named conditions are also causes for rejection: Manifest disturbance of muscle balance; color blindness for red, green, or violet; trachoma, or xerophthalmia; chronic conjunctivitis; pterygium encroaching upon the cornea; complete or extensive destruction of the eyelids, disfiguring cicatrices, adhesions of the lids to each other or to the eyeball; inversion or eversion of the eyelids, or lagophthalmus; trichiasis, ptosis, blepharospasm, or chronic blepheritis; epiphora, chronic dacryocystitis, or lachrymal fistula; chronic keratitis, ulcers of the cornea, staphyloma, or corneal opacities encroaching on the pupillary area and reducing the acuity of vision below the standard noted above; irregularities in the form of the iris, or anterior or posterior synechiae sufficient to reduce the visual acuity below the standard; opacities of the lens or its capsule, sufficient to reduce the acuity of vision below the standard, or progressive cararact of any degree; extensive coloboma of the choroid or iris, absence of pigment, glaucoma, iritis, or extensive or progressive choroiditis; retinitis, detachment of the retina, neuro-retinitis, optic neurititis, or atrophy of the optic nerve; loss or disorganization of either eye, or pronounced exophthalmus; pronounced nystagmus, or permanent or well-marked strabismus; diplopia, or night blindness; abnormal conditions of the eyes due to disease of the brain; malignant tumors of lids or eyeballs; asthenopia accompanying any ocular defect.

A certificate from a competent ophthalmologist may be accepted, at the option of the examining board, as evidence of freedom from lesions of the fundus. Teeth. No candidate will be accepted unless he has a minimum of 6 serviceable, natural masticating teeth above and 6 below, opposing, and 4 serviceable, natural incisors above and 4 below, opposing. Therefore, the minimum requirement consists of a total of 12 masticating teeth and 8 incisor teeth, all of which 75437-24-2

must be so opposed as to serve the purposes of incision and mastication. Wellcrowned teeth or single-tooth replacements by a standard method of fixed bridge work may be considered serviceable, natural teeth.

A carious tooth with one or more cavities which can be restored by filling may be considered a serviceable, natural tooth, and a candidate with such unsound tooth or teeth may be accepted subject to the conditions of having the cavities filled in a satisfactory manner before the date set for his entrance. Teeth affected by extensive caries with large cavities involving the pulp will not be considered serviceable. A tooth will not be considered a serviceable, natural tooth when it is involved with excessively deep pyorrhea pockets, or when its root end is manifestly affected with an infection that has or has not an evacuating sinus discharging through the mucous membrane or skin; nor will a tooth be considered serviceable which fails to enter into serviceable occlusion with the opposing tooth.

The following-named conditions are further causes for disqualification if found to exist to such a degree as would immediately or at no very distant period impair the efficiency of the candidate:

1. Feeble constitution; unsound health from whatever cause; tuberculosis; indications of former tuberculosis; convulsions; venereal disease; heart disease; kidney disease; chorea; and somnambulism.

2. Chronic cutaneous affections.

3. Severe injuries of the bones of the head.

4. Impediment of speech.

5. Want of due capacity of the chest, and any other indication of liability to a pulmonie disease.

6. Impaired or inadequate efficiency of one or both of the superior extremities on account of fractures, especially of the clavicle, contraction of a joint, deformity, etc.

7. Lateral deviation of the spine from the normal midline of more than 2 inches (scoliosis); curvature of the spine of any degree in which function is interfered with, or in which there is noticeable deformity when the applicant is dressed (scoliosis, kyphosis, or lordosis).

8. Hernia in any locality.

9. A varicose state of the veins of the scrotum or spermatic cord (when large), hydrocele, hemorrhoids, fistulas.

10. Impaired or inadequate efficiency of one or both of the inferior extremities on account of varicose veins, fractures, malformation (flat feet, etc.), lameness, contraction, unequal length, bunions, overlying or supernumerary toes, etc. 11. Uleers or unsound cicatrices likely to break down.

The requirements of the following tables of physical proportions are minimum for growing youths and are for guidance in connection with the other data of the examination, a consideration of all of which will determine the candidate's physical eligibility. Mere fulfillment of the requirements of the standard tables does not determine eligibility.

The physical requirements should be those of the age at the birthday nearest the time of the examination. Fractions greater than one-half inch will be considered as an additional inch of height, but candidates must be at least 64 inches in height.

Minimum standards of physical proportions for height, weight, and chest measurement for all candidates except Filipinos.