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...straight dope" on mid-semester grades. We had begun this column with "Correction, Please," but we took it back, because we were right the first time. Cumulative mid-semester grades will be made up and posted for all courses by April 10. These grades will serve to tell each midshipman what his academic performance has been to date. They will take into consideration the two hour quiz, all other written papers and reports, class recitations, plus the instructor's judgment of individual aptitude, which, in fact, are the basis of final grades as well...
Incidentally, if you're really "hep" on this "Sunday on a farm" idea. Commander Collins guarantees a quart of beer to every Midshipman who ploughs a row in his one acre victory farm next Sunday. Line forms to the middle, no crowding. please...
Murph is really beginning to see things our way. Only last week she granted a midshipman's request for a finger bowl. Anything else, fellans? Just say the word...
With regard to academic standards of the Midshipman School, Commander Collins said, "There are no rules on how many courses you must pass. Each case will be considered on its own merit, on the qualifications of the individual. The question is "How high can we raise Harvard's standard!" rather than "How low can we go without failing...
Turning to the purpose of the Midshipman course, Commander Collins said that it is designed to produce a thoroughly indoctrinated Naval Supply officer, by teaching the Why's and How's of industry, food and commodities distribution and supply, and government relations with business. He expressed the hope that many of the men present would choose the Navy as a permanent career...