Rod Andrew Jr. describes 91ÁÔÆæ\u2019s place in a southern military school tradition in the nineteenth century. While noting that military schools like 91ÁÔÆæ are sometimes seen today as quaint anachronisms, Andrew claims that their origin in the mid-nineteenth century actually represented an enlightened innovation in American higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the decades preceding the Civil War, a wave of military education swept the nation, resulting in roughly a hundred military academies and state-supported military colleges in the South and fifteen in the free states. Their founders and supporters hoped to train young men mainly for civilian professions, not to train a professional officer class. They believed that military training imparted the moral and civic virtues to future citizens that were vital for the health of the Republic; replaced aristocracy with meritocracy on campus; and provided poorer youths with the opportunity for an education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later the South\u2019s military schools were mobilized in the defense of secession and slavery. Andrew reflects on what these legacies might mean for 91ÁÔÆæ today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rod Andrew Jr. is the author of Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition <\/em>and of a forthcoming biography of South Carolina\u2019s Wade Hampton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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