Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Navy wife in Washington, listening to the radio, recognized the lyrics. Her Annapolis-trained husband, Captain William Gordon ("Slim") Beecher, who commands a destroyer squadron in Tokyo Bay, wrote them. Mrs. Beecher remembered that some of her husband's 116 previous compositions had done well-his Song of...
National Interest. The Navy wants St. John's 32 acres, across Annapolis' King George Street, for a dormitory to house 5,000 midshipmen. Said a Navy spokesman: "St. John's property is urgently required in the national interest." St. John's suggested that Annapolis could expand...
Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will...
One reason: the Academy's lock-step method of teaching. Daily, across the Yard, in & out of Luce, Dahlgren, Isherwood, Maury Halls, squads of midshipmen march to get their marks, file into class, sit down, open books, stand up, recite, sit down, stand up, march to the next class...
The Big Two. Above all there were West Point and Annapolis. They had already been elected to settle the national championship in Philadelphia, Dec. 1. This psychological burden (it staggered Navy last year) might be something of a handicap, but it seemed unlikely to be a decisive one.