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Title: Citadel Handbook
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: The Citadel
Subjects: Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina -- Students -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Publisher: The Citadel
Contributing Library: The Citadel, Daniel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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e it will say, when its verdict youve won.She reaps as she sowed. This man is her son. —Selected Z2 Worth While It is easy enough to be pleasantWhen life flows by like a song, But the man worth while Is the one who will smileWhen everything goes dead wrong;For the test of the heart is trouble,And it always comes with the years, And the smile that is worth The praises of earthIs the smile that shines thru tears. It is easy enough to be prudent,When nothing tempts you to stray, When without or within No voice of sinIs luring your soul away;Jjut it is only a negative virtueUntil it is tried by fire, And the life that is worth Tlie honor of earthIs the one that resists desire. Iy the cynic, the sad, the fallen,Who had no strength for the strife.The worlds highwayIs cumbered today;They make up the sum of life.But the virtue that conquers passionAnd the sorrow that hides a smile;It is these that are worthThe homage on earth—For we find them both once in a while.-—Ella Wheeler Wilcox w
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Historical Sketch Previous to the year 1841, the Stateof South Carolina had two depositoriesfor its arms and munitions of war—oneknown as the Citadel, in the City ofCharleston; the other known as theArsenal, in the City of Columbia. Thesewere guarded by companies of enlistedmen, and trained officers, and were main-tained at an expense of twenty-four thou-sand dollars per annum. It was Governor Richardson who madethe suggestion that the garrisons be re-placed by young men, who, while servingas guards, should receive military training,and instruction in the practical andmechanic arts. Under the administrationof his successor. Governor Hammond, anAct of the Legislature was passed, onDecember 20, 1842, creating Citadel andArsenal Academies. The Board appointed by the Governorto carry out the purpose of the Act lostno time in performing their duty, andthe faculty of the Citadel was elected onFebruary 23 following. By the twentiethof March, both the Citadel and the Arsenalwere in operatio

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