the beginning of an extraordinary career, young douglas with his father, arthur mcarthur, boy colonel of the civil war and veteran of the campaign in the spanish american war. one day when the son was 13 years old, his father is said to have remarked, i think there are the material of a soldier in that boy. a truth that was soon made clear. entering west point he showed extraordinary brilliance in his studies, attaining an average that was the high nest a quarter century and he won the coveted a in athletics as well. he was to lead the american team in the world olympic games. meanwhile, the campaign in the philippines was being brought to a successful completion under his father's able leadership. the son was eager to visit his battlefields and his first assignment was to survey areas of these islands, one was the baton of peninsula, which many years later he would fight. during the following years, lieutenant macarthur had opportunities to study the far eastern area, gaining insight to the attitudes of peoples hardly known by the west. at the beginning of world war i, the plan was t