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...discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert as saying. "It made it much easier to sustain discipline. It was nice for a lowerclass kid to outmarch a college grad. They can't do that anymore, because the college kids aren't there." And more than nice--a representative military helped America to see its defenders as honorable, not unfortunate, and perhaps made the country more reluctant to go hastily to war. Fallows' prescription is simple: Revive...
...Sherman overnight from a byword to a hissing. But by the time of the Grand Army review in Washington they were cheering him again. The review took two days: the Army of the Potomac first, then the Army of the West. Sherman was very anxious that his men should outmarch the Easterners; but he led the column, would not turn his head to look. Finally, unable to stand the suspense, he turned, saw them marching as they had never marched before. Said he: "I believe it was the happiest and most satisfactory moment of my life." Sherman "never clearly...
TIME of Nov. 9, p. 29, credits President Hibben of Princeton, Lowell of Harvard, Farrand of Cornell, Kinley of Illinois and Chase of North Carolina with the elevating experience of seeing Yale outmarch the Army. No one of them was present! Verbum...
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