Word: midshipman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rear Admiral Franklin Jeremiah Drake, 82, retired: at his home in Washington. Rear Admiral Drake once served on the historic frigate Constitution; and as a midshipman, in 1863, chased Confederate privateers. He was descended from Sir Francis Drake, Admiral of the English Navy...
...life of George V was poignantly recalled by his subjects in the sad waiting hours. He was a second son, a "sailor Prince," and only the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great courage...
...following consideration of the spirit instilled in the midshipman and cadet was written for today's issue of the Crimson by Lieutenant A. R. Taylor, of the United States Naval Academy class of 1922. During his last year at Annapolis, Taylor was managing editor of the Log, the Academy paper. He is now a graduate student in the Engineering school...
...brothers, the officers of the Navy and the Army. When the horns of the goat tangle with the elongated ears of the mule upon the athletic field a partisan feeling that claims every spectator be he uniformed or casual, blazes from the stands. To the fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets at its maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle for transient glory. If success be their...
Tardiness obliged Midshipman Larry Cardwell to borrow and wear his neighbor's clothes one day in 1926 at the U. S. Naval Academy. He was dismissed. Tardiness by Congress in passing a bill to reinstate Midshipman Cardwell, or tardiness by President Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...