Their Ordeal Over.

Saturday we finished our semi-annual grind, and it may be interesting to look about us and see how our student-brethren of other colleges have passed their ordeals. The semi-annual examination has just been ended at the military academy at West Point. Considerable surprise is expressed over the result, there being a very large number of cadets who failed to pass. Five were sent back from the third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them are likely to graduate in June next. The second class stood the ordeal well. It has the largest membership of that class ever at the Point, having 82 members. Not one was found deficient. The Ohio colored lads are doing finely. Alexander of the third class stands 19 in a class of 70, and Young, in the fourth, is about midway in a class of 76 members.