Colleges/UniversitiesMarch 30, 2008 8:08 am
The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, West Point or, for collegiate athletic purposes, Army) is a United States Army post and service academy. West Point was the first United
States military post built after the Declaration of Independence. In its inception, it was under the command of Benedict Arnold.
States military post built after the Declaration of Independence. In its inception, it was under the command of Benedict Arnold.Established in 1802, it is the oldest military academy in the United States. Students are referred to as cadets. Collectively, graduates are known as "The Long Gray Line" because of the color of cadet uniforms and the unbroken line of West Point graduates. West Point trains more United States Army officers than any other single institution and a high proportion of distinguished American generals have been West Point graduates. Currently, over 900 graduates are commissioned as U.S. Army lieutenants every year, representing 25% of new lieutenants commissioned.
WEST POINT, New York — On May 26, a Filipino couple will proudly witness their eldest daughter Erin Grace Begonia, 22, commissioned as second lieutenant to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York.
USMA is renowned as a historic and distinguished military academy, and a leading, progressive institution of higher education. Former President Fidel Ramos is one of its famous graduates from the Philippines.
States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America.
bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and half his personal wealth, $1,500 or seven hundred fifty pounds sterling. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
Boston University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian university. Founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church for the improvement of theological training, it has since its incorporation in 1869 been fully open to women and to all minorities. Its more than 24,022 full-time students and more than 3,500 faculty members contribute to its ranking as one of the world’s largest independent universities. The main campus, on the south bank of the Charles River just west of downtown Boston, houses the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, the School of Management, Metropolitan College, the College of Communication, Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, the School of Social Work, the School of Theology, and the University Professors’ Program. On the medical campus are the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and University Hospital.The Graduate School has 1,910 students, of whom approximately 49 percent are women and 35 percent come from abroad.
