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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Sylvanus Thayer, a graduate of Dartmouth and West Point and a veteran of 1812, was appointed Superintendant of the Academy. He was especially qualified to take charge of West Point; his system, many parts of which are evident at the present time, for sixteen years had the greatest influences on cadet life...
...greatest tradition that West Point has or can ever have, is the "long grey line" of cadets who have gone before. For more than a century and a quarter West Point has been equipping the country's military leaders. It is with pride for the past and ambition for the future that the Corps boasts of the real tradition symbolised by the motto: DUTY--HONOR--COUNTRY
...Club, the journey was a rough one in which they were delayed by having to follow a low pressure area almost all the way. Flying by day and landing at night, the plane hailed at Jefferson City, Missouri, Buffalo, and Rochester on the way from Wichita to Boston. The greatest delay in their flight came at Jefferson City where two days of in clement weather prevented them from taking...
...depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings...
Another reform which is being tried at the Medical School this fall is the reorganizing of third year teaching. One of the greatest faults heretofore has been the continual moving about of the third year instructors. To improve the situation, it has been arranged to have longer assignments for each man to one hospital, in order that the work of the third year may be coordinated...