"Living in a New World": World War One and the Decline of Military Tradition at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1916-1923

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2018
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Smithfield Preston Foundation
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History
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An explanation of how the U.S. Army's use of the Blacksburg college undermined the school's military tradition, which had dated to the school's beginnings as a land-grant institution in 1872.

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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge
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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89463
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