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Sergeant John Hay '38, grandson of Secretary of State Hay and one of the reviewers of the Monthly while at Harvard, is now assistant picture editor. Before the war, he was Washington correspondent for the Charleston News and Courier...
...wife: "Well, Maude, I've just given up my job." The job was that of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court-which had seemed, 16 months before, like the pinnacle of achievement to a man born on the wrong end of famed, aristocratic King Street in Charleston, South Carolina...
...Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years...
Citadel men fired both the first and last shots in the War Between the States. On January 9, 1861, Citadel cadets trained a battery of 24-pounders in Charleston harbor upon the federal ship Star of the West, which was steaming to the relief of Fort Sumter. This was the war's first hostility, though the struggle is usually dated from April 12, 1861, when Sumter itself was attacked. Each spring the best-drilled Citadel cadet is awarded tempo rary possession of a medal made from a piece of wood from the Star of the West...
When The Citadel in 1922 moved into new $3,500,000 quarters in northwestern Charleston its enrollment began growing from a mere 350 to nearly 2,000. Its scholastic stature has also grown under the presidency of General Charles Pelot Summerall, who retired from the U.S. Army (he was Chief of Staff) in 1931. About 60% of The Citadel's cadets now come from outside South Carolina, but most are still Southerners, by no means wholly reconstructed...