1. Emphasis in the original.
2. Virginia residents attending the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) were expected to spend a period of time recompensing the state for their education by teaching in a school district within the state, joining the state's National Guard, or serving as engineers on state highways. VMI application, VMI Archives, Lexington, Virginia.
3. As the careers of these academics predate the Progressive era, Frost uses the term “progressivist.”
4. Ben-David Joseph Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1977), p. 60.
5. Osterweis The Myth of the Lost Cause, p. ix.