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...list goes on--but it is too long to relate here. Each man will have to absorb and learn it for himself. But to help him, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, wrote a book called "Three Centuries of Harvard." It should be a "must" for every Harvard student
...drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation, he was not sorry that their sun-dulled minds could not absorb his lessons, "as this left the responsibility for our progress entirely in my hands...
Remarking first on the immense expansion of the United States Navy in the past few months, Admiral Wilson told of the amazement expressed once by a French officer at the Navy's ability to absorb 400 graduates of Annapolis each year. "Think what he would say now," the Admiral remarked, pointing out that here were 600 officers, only part of an enormous program, being rushed to duty...
Excessive overcrowding of the Houses has resulted from the influx of unanticipated numbers of Naval students in the Yard. This has made it impossible for the Houses to absorb any Freshmen entering in September...
Average wait: three months. The 60-odd schooling fields of the Flying Training Command could not absorb the candidates as fast as they were needed or as fast as they applied...