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...future officers in the Ensign School awake early these dark mornings--so do all the other occupants of the dormitories in the Yard. The first expresses cause, the second result. From considerable experience the civilian students are coming to regard life near the good ship Matthews Hall as extremely rigorous, during the early morning hours especially. Shortly after the zero hour, so it seems to the startled sleepers, the night stillness is shattered by bravely blown reveille. The dreaming student is restored to full consciousness without lingering in any of the intermediate stages. The damage done, he turns over...
Such is the unhappy lot of those who room in the Yard dormitories. The Ensign School is apparently blissfully ignorant and wholly immune in regard to the Parietal Regulations, but one hesitates to think of the student's fate who should as successfully arouse the Yard some-time before dawn. If this nocturnal performance is necessary to the health and happiness of the ensigns, why cannot a more auspicious site be chosen for it? There are a dozen places in or near the Yard that could be selected with better consideration for the comfort of others. The war being over...
...appointed Assistant Dean of Harvard College. After graduating from the College in 1916, Murdock was appointed Assistant in English. At the end of the college year 1916-17 he joined the Red Cross. In June, 1918 he enlisted in the Navy and was commissioned at the Princeton Ensign School in November, 1918. He has also been re-appointed assistant in English...
News was received in Cambridge last night of the death from pneumonia of Ensign Thomas Milton Hodgens, Jr., '20, of Greenwich, Conn., in New York City yesterday morning. At the outbreak of the war Hodgens left College to enlist in the Naval Reserve. In the fall of 1917 he returned to College on leave and enrolled in the Naval courses which were then given by the University...
Early last summer he was called back into active service and stationed at Newport. On the basis, of his previous naval work in the University Hodgens took the examinations for ensign in August, passed them, and received his commission the last of September. He had just obtained his discharge from the service when he was stricken with pneumonia...