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Myers, Minor was born on August 13, 1942 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Minor and Ruth Myers.
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Founded in May 1783 at Steuben’s headquarters near Newburg, N.Y., by officers of the Continental army and navy, the Society of the Cincinnati was at one time one of America’s most controversial organizations. In Liberty without Anarchy, Minor Myers relates how the officers, who had not been paid for four years, began to circulate rumors of a military coup. The society, with Washington as President-General, was formed to exert political pressure on Congress to guarantee payment in response to the angry men. Many Americans, Thomas Jefferson principal among them, viewed the new organization with suspicion, as a seedbed for a hereditary American aristocracy. As Myers points out, the fears were well-founded: many society members were monarchists, and in 1786 Steuben himself wrote to Prince Henry of Prussia inquiring whether he might be interested in becoming king of the United States. Prince Henry declined. The interest in monarchy ended with the adoption of the federal Constitution in 1787, with many society members as delegates to the Convention, but it was not until 1827 that the original pay dispute was resolved and the officers awarded a pension. With unprecedented access to the society’s papers and documents, Minor Myers has produced a highly readable history of this fascinating organization, in which he concludes that the Society is an important reminder of the road the American revolutionaries avoided―the road that led from revolution to army coup to military dictatorship―a road taken by most of the armed revolutions of the last two hundred years. tag:The history of how a powerful and potentially subversive group of officers made the choice for liberty during the Revolutionary War
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The Princeton Graduate School was born of controversy, first between President James McCosh and his opponents, who doubted the wisdom of attaching a graduate school to a small college with a religious complexion, and then between President Woodrow Wilson and the formidable Dean Andrew Fleming West. Dean West, who won every point at issue between them, went on to establish a graduate school that has increasingly been identified with excellence in all the fields in which it offers training. Succeeding deans, notably Hugh Stott Taylor, shaped Princeton's particular approach to graduate study with its central focus on research. Especially through the professors trained in the graduate school, Princeton has profoundly influenced education at many colleges and universities nationwide. Outside the academy, Princeton graduate alumni have been leaders in the arts, religion, industry, and government here and abroad, carrying with them a deep commitment to learning fostered by their time in the shadow of Cleveland Tower. The history of the Graduate School at Princeton thus reveals a great deal about the explosion of knowledge that has radically changed American society in the twentieth century. First published in 1978, The Princeton Graduate School: A History has been revised and expanded, with new chapters recounting the dramatic growth of graduate education since World War II. The updated edition celebrates the centennial of the Graduate School's founding and looks forward to its continued importance in the twenty-first century.
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Myers, Minor was born on August 13, 1942 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Minor and Ruth Myers.
Bachelor of Arts, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1964; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1972.
From instructor to associate professor, Connecticut College, New London, 1968-1981; professor government, Connecticut College, New London, 1981-1984; provost, dean of faculty, professor political science, Hobart and William Smith Colls., Geneva, New York, 1984-1989; president, professor political science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, since 1989. Advisory Numismatic Collection Yale University, 1975-1984. Chairman advisory county Lyman Allyn Museum, 1976-1981, 82-84, president, 1982-1984.
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Assistant secretary general Society of the Cincinnati, 1983-1986, secretary-general, 1986-1989. Trustee Institute for European Study, since 1992. Member Princeton Club (New York City), University (Chicago.
Children— Minor III, Joffre V.A.