Fit to Serve

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Lieutenant John Renehan writes to his "elite" brethren from New York and elsewhere: 

And yes, I'm speaking to you bookish types now. However well you may think you know your own pacific constitution, be assured that there is someone more physical and forceful within you -- someone you will meet, given the right circumstances.

This is something we've talked about before.  As noted then, Harvard was a better school when it produced men like Francis Parkman, who drew praise from Theodore Roosevelt when he wrote:

[I]f any pale student glued to his desk here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship, of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

Saddle up.

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Fit to Serve

Lieutenant John Renehan writes to his "elite" brethren from New York and elsewhere: 

And yes, I'm speaking to you bookish types now. However well you may think you know your own pacific constitution, be assured that there is someone more physical and forceful within you -- someone you will meet, given the right circumstances.

This is something we've talked about before.  As noted then, Harvard was a better school when it produced men like Francis Parkman, who drew praise from Theodore Roosevelt when he wrote:

[I]f any pale student glued to his desk here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship, of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

Saddle up.

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