But he is a West Point graduate and therefore must be born to command ''.

McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

These were only the second class to graduate from the academy, which is modeled after the United States Military Academy at West Point.

As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.

As a result, U-M gained the nickname " Harvard of the West ," which became commonly parodied in reverse after John F. Kennedy referred to himself as " a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University " in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps while on the front steps of the Michigan Union.

Late in his tenure, Wilson confronted Andrew Fleming West, Dean of the graduate school, and West's ally former President Grover Cleveland who was a trustee.

While commander of Fort Davis, he started a controversial court-martial of second lieutenant Henry Flipper, the first black cadet to graduate from West Point.

Folksinger Bob Dylan famously attended the University and was a part of its thriving " West Bank " music scene, but did not graduate.

Furthermore, he was the senior West Point graduate from that state, which implied a commensurate rank in the state's forces would be available.

They are re-united several years later when the soldier is about to graduate from West Point and the general becomes the Academy's Commandant.

* Downtown Campus, at 565 West Adams Street in Chicago, houses Chicago-Kent College of Law, Stuart School of Business, and the graduate programs in Public Administration

Gately, a graduate of West Point, grandson of a general officer and son of General Tom Gately, is assigned as the commander of a bomber named the " Leper Colony ", to which Savage assigns those he considers substandard.

The estate passed to Custis ' and his wife's ( Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis ) only surviving adult child Mary Anna Custis Lee who was married to Robert E. Lee, a West Point graduate and United States Army officer.

Georgia's 94th county was named for William Washington Gordon ( 1796 – 1842 ), the first Georgian to graduate from West Point and first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad ( See a monument to William Gordon in Savannah, Georgia ).

Sammie is a graduate of West Blocton High School and Stillman College.

The brothers were both born on Governors Island in New York Harbor, where their father, Thomas B. Smothers, Jr., a West Point graduate and U. S. Army officer, was stationed.

The city was named for West Point graduate John Mullan, who was in charge of selecting a wagon route ( commonly called the Mullan Road ) between Fort Benton ( Montana ) and Fort Walla Walla ( Washington ).

As the O & M railroad was surveyed, the owners of the land arranged for one of the surveyors, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel ( 1810 – 1862 ), a West Point graduate and professor at the University of Cincinnati, to plat their new town in exchange for naming it for him.

* Jefferson Davis, US Army General and West Point graduate ; U. S. Secretary of War ( Defense ); only President of the Confederate States of America

Wheatland's historical importance lies in the fact that it was the community studied by Carl Withers, an anthropology graduate student from Columbia University, and described pseudonymously in his book " Plainville U. S. Athe name " James West ").

* Antonio Buehler was a Pottsville resident and high school graduate before graduating West Point and rising to the rank of Captain in the U. S. Army, serving in Kosovo and Iraq.

* General George Joulwan, born in Pottsville in 1939, a West Point graduate, was a 4-star General in the US Army and served as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe from 1993 to 1997.

Stewart, 1821 – 1908, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and served throughout the American Civil War as a commanding officer in the Confederate States ' Army of Tennessee.

A West Point graduate and career soldier in the armies of three nations, he fought in numerous wars and rebellions in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba.

He graduated from West Point in early 1945 and attended graduate studies at George Washington University and Harvard University, and achieved a master's degree in international relations from the latter.

Established in 1924, High Point University is a liberal arts institution with approximately 3, 000 undergraduate and graduate students from 52 countries and 36 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem.

Captain Henry T. Allen of the 6th U. S. Cavalry, a Kentucky-born graduate of West Point ( Class 1882 ), was named as the chief of the force, and was later dubbed as the " Father of the Philippine Constabulary ".

A 1918 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, Casey served in Germany during the Occupation of the Rhineland.

Succeeded in the presidency by one son, Luis Somoza Debayle, he was succeeded as head of the National Guard by another, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

He was not given a graduate assistant for many years and was relegated to teach mainly in the education school or Rabbinical school, not in the academic graduate program.

He was a Lecturer in Anthropology from 1937 through 1938, replacing Sapir, who was gravely ill. Whorf gave graduate level lectures on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

While still a graduate student in 1934, Parkinson was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a member of the 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen's ), was promoted Lieutenant later the same year, and commanded an infantry company at the jubilee of King George V in 1935.

He was the top mathematician at Peterhouse, but did not graduate with honours.

In 1926, a graduate school of aeronautics was created, which eventually attracted Theodore von Kármán.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

* Imette St. Guillen-a graduate student, murdered in February 2006, studying criminal justice ; a scholarship was created in her name

The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.

The college was still afraid that it would cause a scandal, and agreed to let Brubeck graduate only after he promised never to teach piano.

Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs trace their origins to the 1960s.

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

The first woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson was also a graduate from Dalhousie Law School.