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Discipline & Discharge
In a West Point chemistry class one day in 1854, Cadet James Abbot Whistler was asked to discuss silicon. He began: "Silicon is a gas." "That will do, Mr. Whistler," said the professor-and shortly thereafter Cadet Whistler was handed his discharge papers. In later years, when he had made...
Such discharge or suspension of college professors for refusing to answer questions is a "shocking and arbitrary act," Jones concluded
A stipulation in the bill, which went into effect August 20, holds that veterans must begin their training not more than two years after their discharge.
It concerns education, and education only. The discharge of responsibilities, large or small, easy or arduous, have a way of maturing students who otherwise might passively sit over their books too long. There is no better way to learn self-reliance of mind and will than by using it, and...