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Not Even Heroic
Winslow, Thacher | July 18, 1934 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "Tin Soldiers," by Robert Wohlforth. It would be rather hard to say who is, or will be, the most unpopular graduate of West Point-Robert Wohlforth or Colonel T. Bentley Mott, the U.S. retired, whose article in the March issue of Harper's gave such a courageous, frank, and illuminating picture of this famous institution. Both have painted, in no uncertain colors, its grueling and soul-destroying regimentation, its planned, leisureless days, its unvarying class-room assignments, lectures, recitations, and examinations which make the "poop-sheets" so useful and accurate to those who have had neither the time nor the intelligence to prepare their work.

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TIN Soldiers (Book); BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; WOHLFORTH, Robert; SOLDIERS
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