The Function of the State University; Being the Proceedings of the Inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as President of the University of North Carolina
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Military history texts discuss the histo...)
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Military history texts discuss the historical record of armed conflict in the history of humanity, its impact on people, societies, and their cultures. Some fundamental subjects of military history study are the causes of war, its social and cultural foundations, military doctrines, logistics, leadership, technology, strategy, and tactics used, and how these have developed over time. Thematic divisions of military history may include: Ancient warfare, Medieval warfare, Gunpowder warfare, Industrial warfare, and Modern warfare.
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Military strategy texts present ideas for military organizations to achieve their desired strategic goals. Military strategy discusses the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and how to deceive the enemy. Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war." B. H. Liddell Hart defined strategy as "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy", which places more emphasis on political aims relative to military goals. Sun Tzu (544-496 BC) is the father of Eastern military strategy and greatly influenced Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese war tactics. His book The Art of War has been very popular and has seen practical implementation in Western societies.
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Inaugural Address At The University Of North Carolina
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Edward Kidder Graham was a president of the University of North Carolina. He became dean of the college of liberal arts in 1909, acting president in 1913, and president in 1914.
Background
Edward Kidder Graham was born on October 11, 1876, at Charlotte, North Carolina. He was the son of Archibald and Elizabeth Owen (Barry) Graham, both parents being members of families which have given to the state distinctive leadership in the fields of education and government.
Education
Graham attended the city schools and Carolina Military Institute of Charlotte. He entered the University of North Carolina in 1894, and graduated in 1898, being second in his class and the winner of the senior oratorical prize.
He received in 1902 the degree of M. A. from Columbia College, where he spent the second year in graduate study in 1904-05.
Career
After teaching one year in a private school in Charlotte, Graham returned to the University in 1899 as librarian, and before the end of the year became an instructor in the English department, which he served as instructor (1899 - 1902), associate professor (1902 - 04), and professor (1904 - 13).
He became dean of the college of liberal arts in 1909, acting president in 1913, and president in 1914.
From his class in English composition, in which subjects for discussion and themes were drawn from the everyday life of the state, scores of men went directly into teaching, journalism, law, or business, deeply impressed by his conceptions of citizenship, democracy, and culture.
The deanship afforded him new opportunities for extending the work of the classroom. In his stimulating chapel talks, he developed his conceptions of student conduct on what has been characterized as the most democratic, self-governing campus in America.
The chapel became a constructive training ground for informed citizenship, and the remarkable advance in education, health, public welfare, highway construction, and industry which North Carolina made in the two decades between 1910 and 1930 was due in large measure to the ideas to which Graham gave vivid expression as dean.
In notable addresses throughout the state, he insisted that the civilization of the state could be advanced only by intelligent work on the part of the entire people, all effort being shot through with fine feeling. In this way only, in Graham’s opinion, could a cultured democracy be wrought out.
His term of service as acting president and the president was a brief five years. It was long enough, however, for him to win state-wide acceptance of the ideas which he had been developing as teacher and dean.
In December 1914, largely as a result of his leadership, every village, town, and city in North Carolina spent three entire days in the consideration of community problems.
In the same year, Graham established in the University the department of rural economics and sociology, stimulated the founding of the North Carolina Club, a faculty-student organization for the consideration of state problems, and provided for the publication of the University News Letter, a weekly publication which has devoted itself steadily to the study of North Carolina economic and social questions.
When the United States entered the World War, Graham anticipated the organization of the Students Army Training Corps by establishing a training unit on the University campus long in advance of the national organization.
Consequently, when the latter was perfected, he logically became the regional director for the South Atlantic states.
His death from influenza, which swept the country in the fall of 1918, was truly “in the line of duty. ”
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Views
Graham placed the division of extension upon a firm basis, provided for the holding of important institutes concerned with health, education, editorial policies, highway construction, and public welfare, and developed the idea advanced in his inaugural address, that a state university was not a thing apart, but the best instrument yet devised through which a state could serve itself.
In this respect, he broke from the conception of a university held by the more conservative eastern institutions, but in so doing, he won the instant approval and support of the state and gave to the University a social-mindedness which has been one of its most distinctive characteristics since his death.
Personality
Though frail in physique, Graham was commanding in appearance and spoke with grace and power.
Connections
Graham's wife, Susan Williams Moses, to whom he was happily married on June 25, 1908, died on December 22, 1916, leaving a son.