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...James B. Thayer...
Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific...
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...
...Under Thayer, West Point became the first and model U.S. engineering school...
...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...