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Under the Citadel. When the marines were first splashing ashore at Port-au-Prince in 1915, Paul Eugene Magloire had just turned eight years old. His birthplace was Quartier-Morin, a few miles southeast of Cap-Haitien. His father was Eugene Magloire, a peasant so energetic that he rose to be one of the many generals then running Haiti's army. The general was killed in a shooting accident in 1908, and the infant Paul was brought up by two brothers in Cap-Haitien. The Brothers of Christian Instruction gave him a Catholic education, stressing French and Latin, while...
...scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang in the air, especially in the north, around Cap-Hai-tien; it becomes almost tangible in the presence of the 3,000-lb. cannon, graved with the arrogant "N" of the Napoleon who lost them, in the gloomy gun galleries of the Citadel...
...University of California, already the most sprawling citadel of education in the U.S. (38,000 full-time students on five campuses), this week added a sixth separate unit, the University of California at Riverside, a liberal arts college. Equipped with a spanking new $6,000.000 campus, U.C.R.'s Provost Gordon S. Watkins, formerly head of U.C.L.A.'s 3,000-student liberal arts college, hopes to keep the addition small in size, but strong in the humanities. Opening enrollment: 200. Anticipated limit: 1,500. ¶ From Boston came two hopeful plans to discover potential juvenile delinquents before they start...
...long the privilege of the G.O.P.-visualizing the beneficial results to accrue from turning the bunglers of today out of office. After that, said Stevenson, "I see [the U.S.] united in high endeavors, standing once again before the world calm, wise and resolute, a beacon of hope, a citadel of fortitude-and of faith...
Last week, the Citadel (enrollment 1,393) welcomed a new man whose rank is in no doubt. After receiving a hero's ticker-tape welcome in Manhattan, he had headed for South Carolina to accept the $12,000 job as successor to the Citadel's 86-year-old president, General Charles P. Summerall, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In time, the new president will also be something to remember. His name: Mark Clark, General, U.S.A...