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New York Correspondents John Tompkins and Roland Flamini spent the week at West Point, where they were given carte blanche to ask questions. "I had forgotten how carefully scrubbed and polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may...
What drives Berry to get at the root of the problem is his firm conviction that the honor code is the "archstone" of West Point's stern motto: Duty, Honor, Country. Says he: "I do not think the code is anachronistic. Integrity is essential in the development of leader...
Graduates of the academies may form only 11% of the corps of commissioned officers on active duty in the armed forces (10% in the Army, 17% in the Navy, 9% in the Air Force), and the military may be getting steadily more democratic. But a man wearing the heavy and...
If West Point does decide that its present system is unrealistic and unfair, it has two models close at hand to copy. Both Annapolis and the Air Force Academy have systems that differ in important ways from the Point's. At Annapolis, midshipmen are not required to turn each...
The state of Maryland is famous for crabs. But those succulent little shellfish were not what the Harvard heavyweight crew was served this weekend when the Crimson traveled to Annapolis to take on a menu of Navy and Penn oarsmen.