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| | Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915, by Rod Andrew Jr.. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Instead, southern colleges organized themselves on a military basis much like West Point, Annapolis, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), and the Citadel, requiring their male students to be habitually in uniform, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. |
 | | College administrators responded, on one hand, by forcefully reasserting their authority but also, on the other, by making some concessions to democratic ideals of self-government. |
 | | But while northern and western colleges often managed to meet this requirement in a halfhearted way by instituting a few drills per week, the southern white land-grant colleges drew upon the antebellum traditions of VMI and the Citadel, as well as the powerful cultural icon of the Confederate soldier. |
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