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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Virginia Military Institute"”.
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The Virginia Military Institute Rat Challenge Evaluation
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Rat Challenge program. The Rat Challenge is designed to foster self-confidence and physical conditioning in Fourth Classmen by creating training situations which are stressful enough to show them they are capable of …
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Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute
The founders and officers of the Virginia Military Institute, one of the few American engineering schools in the antebellum period, embedded a particular engineering culture into the curriculum and discipline of the school. This occurred, in some cases, as a consequence of struggles by the elite of …
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Colonel Thomas T. Munford and the last cavalry operations of the Civil War in Virginia
… Munford served as a Colonel with the Second Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute and a veteran of First and Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Five Forks, Munford lacked only the official approval of the Confederate Congress to receive his …
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James Alexander Walker: a biography
… on August 21, 1832. Raised in Augusta County, Virginia, he was an active youth. In 1848, he entered the Virginia Military Institute. Though a fine student, in 1852, he was dismissed for his poor conduct in the class of Major Thomas J. Jackson. In the years before the Civil War, Walker worked as …
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Effect of a physical training program involving psycho-physical stress upon the anxiety and self-concepts of male military college students
… the "Rat" (freshman) training program at the Virginia Military Institute alters the anxiety and self-concepts of participants. "Rat" training consists of various activities involving physical and psychological stress, that have been modeled after activities contained in Outward Bound and …
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… in 1859, Westmoreland Davis grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He received his education at the Virginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia and the Columbia University. After graduation in 1886 with a degree in law from Coluabia, Davis remained in New York and experienced a meteoric rise …
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Stapleton Crutchfield: Stonewall Jaackson's chief of artillery
No Virginian was more dedicated to the Confederate cause than Stapleton Crutchfield. Born into a prominent and wealthy family, Crutchfield enjoyed and embraced the southern aristocratic lifestyle. He was a Virginian first and a United States citizen second. When Crutchfield was sixteen, he enrolled …