Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, each student is constantly scrutinized by the authorities in command for evidence of insufficient leadership potential. This concept is probably the most basic factor in governing the West Point mode of life, for character training and development of leadership among its students is the prime end of the Academy...
...last war. Within the last few years, the curriculum has been altered drastically from its old scientific emphasis to the point where now almost one half of its courses are in the fields of social science and humanities. True, courses in military history and the psychology of military leadership come under these headings, and another course in the department teaches relations with the National Guard and Reserves, but there is at least a realization of the old maxim that there are two ways to lead a donkey...
...M.I.T. After a study of the institution in 1945, this board submitted a report which concluded; "...the four years of college can best be devoted to education in the general fundamentals, enlargement of social vision, and development of cultural appreciation. Because of the variety of duties and of leadership which fall to the lot of the Army officer, to provide a foundation of this type of liberal education becomes increasingly the mission of the Academy...
...soldier is perhaps the most specialized in the world, one which demands a mode of life more exacting and methodical than a civilian profession could hope to be. To expect a thoroughly liberal college to produce a body of men espable of maintaining the standards of duty and leadership which every Army must have at its base would be as absurd as expecting an Army camp to produce scholars and artists...
...remains largely ignorant about the new manner of man living across the Atlantic. The displaced person, booted about Europe for the past 15 years, can tell Americans much of the new loves and new hates of the 1948 continental. Peace depends in part on enlightened leadership in Europe, and United States universities can help displaced persons to support such leadership. But peace also depends on an America which has evolved beyond the dark ages of its own aloofness. Here is where the visiting DP could pay us back...