Word: midshipmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NROTC has been denounced both by official stand of the CRIMSON and by the Young Progressives. During this time I have seen not one letter published by an NROTC student, hence I feel it my duty to write, not as an official representative of the NROTC, but as a midshipman who is disgusted with the stand taken by both the CRIMSON and the Young Progressives...
...CRIMSON seems to have misled readers by implying that a midshipman will be discharged simply for attending a function similar to an AYD folk dance or some such thing. Such is not the case, since the oath demands the signer to outline in detail his relationship with any particular organization listed. This statement is then considered by a reviewing board which judges whether the activity is subversive or not. Obviously, no one will be expelled from the unit if he has not taken an active and supporting role in such an organization, in other words supporting the principles...
Navy salvaged three events from the slaughter. Midshipman Kanakanul, freestyler specialist for the sailors, took the 50 and 100 races...
...Naval Academy discharged Midshipman Frederick W. Lauer Jr., a senior, who had bought up 400 extra tickets to the Navy-Penn game from lower classmen at $3.60 apiece for sale to a scalper. Possible profit: at $20 a ticket...
...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...