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Each of the five Assistant Chiefs is selected to advise the Chief within a special field. They are picked for intellect rather than exploits. All of the present Assistants (see pp. 16 & 17) are veterans of both the Spanish-American and World Wars, though none has commanded a division in the field. Two out of five are non-West Pointers, a just proportion since the ratio of Military Academy graduates to non-graduates among Army officers is about...
...Harvard man, according to the Smith girls, is an "effete, supercilious, broad A, intellect," an a Yale man, says Radcliffe, is one of a group of "rah, rah boys who ask silly questions like this one." Dartmouth is, however, "good for weekends" (Winter Carnival stuff). Williams and Amherst are dismissed with even less courtesy than the Bruins...
...chests and straighten many young shoulders. It will be nothing less than the great man deserves. But there will be a horrible jarring note to anyone who thinks. Mr. Holmes was a jurist, a man who made his mark on the world through the power and justice of his intellect, through hours of painful and thorough work, through consistent disregard of self and consideration of first principles first; not through the seizing of a propitious moment for one rash deed of physical courage...
...Relations Federal Gov. & Pol. Theory Political Theory Eut. Pol. Institu. Party Politics & Federal Gov. Int. Fin. Rela. Federal Gov. Govt. Regula. of Business International Law & Relations History 47 18 9-10 16 7 13 10 American Modern Eng. Modern Europe Greek American Mod. Eur. Fr. & Intellectual Intellect. Hist. European American American Latin American English Medieval Middle Ages Italy English American Fr. Hist. 19th Cent. Roman Renaissance 10 Hist. & Lit. 4-6 7 12-14 5 20 10 Renaissance Eng. or Medieval French England Germany Renaissance Middle Ages America England Renaissance Amer.--17th Cent. Eng.--17th Cent. Hist...
...White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...