Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 27, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late Maj. Kermit, and Nancy Thayer Roosevelt, 25, Manhattan socialite: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Simon Willard. Weight...
...First, Thayer got rid of Partridge - no easy job. Soon after, he succeeded in dismissing the son of a major general for returning late from vacation. Thus began the impartial, ironclad discipline that was to shape West Point's growth...
...Under Thayer, West Point became the first and model U.S. engineering school...
When Brevet Major Thayer was named Superintendent of West Point in 1817, the 15 -year-old Academy was rotten with nepotism, sycophancy, bad teaching, worse discipline. When Thayer arrived, all the faculty was under arrest, and shambling, dictatorial Captain Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge was holding the post singlehanded...
...Thayer also inaugurated: 1) high stand ards of admission; 2) the breaking up of classes into small sections so that instructors could speed the bright cadets and worry along with the dullards; 3) daily recitations and grades for all cadets; 4) a Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, to in spire public confidence; 6) a cadet officer hierarchy, based solely on merit; 7) a strong community of spirit, based on absolute honesty. By the time Thayer resigned in 1833, West Point had earned international renown...