LOUISIANA STATE
SEMINARY, April 17, 1860.
SIR: I am directed
by the Board of Supervisors to communicate to you their request that in
nominating a beneficiary cadet for this institution that nomination at your
regular meeting in June, with the understanding that the cadet shall enter this
institution at the beginning of next session, that is, the first of November,
1860, for it is very important that all cadets enter their classes at the same
time. I take this opportunity to say also that it will be well if you will send
me the name and address of your candidate in order that I may communicate with
him in regard to the text books which he must study and the outfit with which
he should provide himself before coming here. If the nomination is made in
June, the cadet whom you choose will have time to prepare for admission in
November with a better chance of success in his classes, and since his
appointment lasts four years, it makes little difference whether the
appointment dates from June or from November.
The present session
will end about the middle of August. Our classes began on the second day of
last January and are so far advanced that a young man coming in now could not
successfully keep up with his comrades nor could the professors do justice to
him.
Your candidate
should be between fifteen and twenty-one years of age, should know how to read
and write and should have a knowledge of the fundamental principles of
arithmetic. With that foundation he can, during the interval between his
nomination and the time for his admission here, easily prepare himself to
fulfill the conditions of admission.
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