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West Point under fire from Harvard president critique
Harvard president emeritus Charles Eliot attacks West Point as an ill prepared idiosyncratic school and calls for congressional action to fit it to a strong national purpose. Secretary Baker defends admissions, curriculum, and the academy’s role amid wartime demands and a list of notable West Point graduates in U.S. history.
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Harles W. Eliot
Emerit~tus
Harvard University
Htarvard Teachers’ Association
United States Military Academy
West Point
House
War Department
Julitus Kahn
California
Committee On
Wuar
Newton D. Baker
Baker
Hahn
Eliot
Medical Board
Academic Board
Bater
Naval Academy
Annapolis
United States
Confederate States
Congress
Coast Survey
Surveyors
States and Territories
National Guard
Commercial
Industrial Organization of America
Rlke
Military Academy
Custer
Crooke
Wright
Mackenzie
Cooke
Johnston
Jefferson Davis
Aberfromble
Casey
McCall
Canby
Rains
Swift
Sherman
Totten
Bragg
A. B
Lee
McClellan
Beauregerd
Huger
Reno
Grant
Sherdan
Schofield
Buell
Burnside
Gilmore
Halleck
Hancock
Heintzelman
Hooker
Howard
Humphreys
Kilpatrick
Lyon
Meade
Merritt
McDowell
Ord
Pope
Porter
Reynolds
Rosecrans
Slocum
Thomas
Warren
Beauregard
Cooper
Hood
Johnston J
R. W B. Lee
Kirby Smith
Anderson Buckner
Barry
Ewell
Hardee
A. P. All
H Hill
Holmes
Jackson
D. Lee
Longstreet Pemberton
Polk
A. P. Stewart
Wheeler
Fitz Lee
Lovell
Pickett
J. B. B. Stuart
van Dorn
Otis
King
Bell
Pershing
Lawton
Poe
Abbott
Holden
Black
Goethals
Sibert
Gaillard
Hodges
Buckner
Longstreet
du Pont
Briggs
March
Bliss
Bullard
Ligneth
Avethdls
Summerall
Jarvey
Seat
Mayer
Biddle
McAndrew
Blohar
Qennor Etal