Download or read book Ceremonies at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Army War College Classic Reprint written by United States Army Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ceremonies at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Army War College Addresses were made by the President of the United States, by the honorable Secretary of War, and by Maj. Gen. S. B. M. Young, president of the War College Board. Mr. C. F. McKim, of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects of the War College building, was introduced, but merely acknowledged the introduction and made no address. The invited guests included members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the justices of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Senate and House of Representatives, the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army, the Admiral of the Navy, and other officers of the Army and the Navy in Washington, the major-general commanding the Department of the East, representatives of the press, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the justices of the District of Columbia supreme court, the general officer commanding the District of Columbia militia and his staff, and the commandants of the Military Academy and the various army service schools, besides a number of individuals who, for various reasons, were interested in the ceremony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.