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son, I was speaking to you awhile ago about George Washington. Well, George had a pet scheme in the back part of his head, the foundation of a Military Academy. Only three days before his death he wrote to Alexander Hamilton: “The establishment of an institution of this kind has ever been considered by me as an object of primary importance for this country. When I was in the