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Harvard, with the pressure abruptly relieved, turned its attention to holding off inspired Navy for the final third of the race, and as Midshipman second-class Charles Munns strained mightily at his oar, Navy began to move on the Crimson shell. Then, Harvard cox Dave Weinberg called for power, and his boat responded with a smooth, explosive spring, that reopened the margin and won the Adams Cup Saturday--for the first time since 1968 by a little more than a length...
...MIDSHIPMAN RICHARD ROLLINS Annapolis...
Unlike their more evanescent brothers of the flesh, the great figures of fiction are not covered by the laws of libel. Did not Sherlock Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
...outside its walls. Calvert praises "team spirit, the battle cry, camaraderie, heroism, the desperate fight against impossible odds," and deplores the fact that higher education in the U.S. tends to reject "authority, tradition, moral values?anything that smacks of absolutes. Annapolis cannot go along with that." And if a midshipman does not believe "in the essential goodness of the country and has no desire to defend it against all its enemies," Calvert wants him to leave...
Dumb Dedication. Last fall Calvert unveiled a new curriculum that included 24 majors-17 of them non-engineering. For the first time, a midshipman could work toward a liberal arts degree. A black-literature course was set up. Even the required military courses were spruced up: navigation and naval tactics, for example, are now based on actual fleet situations rather than textbook theory. The new majors program attracted 7,000 applicants for the class of '74, more than 1,000 above the previous record...