Education: G.I. U.

The total absence of sloppy sportswear was notable; so was the stage for the opening address by the head of the school, Brigadier General Claude M. Thiele, who spoke from atop a concrete pillbox (and split an infinitive in his first sentence).

Otherwise last week's opening of the Army's University Center No. 1 at Shrivenham, England was little different from any first day on a U.S. college campus.*

Set in a pleasantly wooded district, the grounds and buildings had been laid out in 1937 to house a second Sandhurst (Britain's West Point). Turned over...

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