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A Backward Look at Annapolis
It also raises sharp questions about the quality of U.S. service academies, says David Boroff, 45, professor of English at New York University and the nation's liveliest critic-inspector of colleges and universities (Campus, U.S.A.). "As sympathetically as possible," World War II Veteran Boroff (corporal, Army Intelligence) set...
Boroff finds that "surprisingly good" students flock to the academies. But something goes wrong, he thinks, when they get there. At "rambunctiously adolescent" Annapolis, senior essays run to such topics as "A History of Varsity Cross Country at the U.S.N.A." At austere West Point, cadets are "bright, dutiful boys with...
"Less flamboyantly spartan," Annapolis allows midshipmen to take majors and uses civilian professors in academic departments. But all department heads are naval officers ("often uninformed"), who come and go every three years. Tackling this problem, the Navy is now out to find Annapolis a civilian academic dean "of national rank...
Stanford had three winners this year; Annapolis, Princeton, and Yale had two each.