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Group championships in epee, foils, and three-weapon fell to the U. S. Naval Academy, while Columbia captured first place in the sabre. In the individual championships Manzo, U. S. Military Academy, took first place, as did De Poix, Naval Academy, in the foils, and Campo, also a Midshipman, in the Sabre. Final three-Weapon Standing Epee Foil Sabre Total Navy 28 1/2 29 23 75 1/2 Army 21 1/2 19 24 64 1/2 Columbia 18 16 26 60 N.Y.U 14 21 24 59 City College 15 24 16 55 Harvard...
...toughest job on the team. He is beginning to become a seasoned wrestler and is bound to present a fight, but Capt. Leigh has the advantage in experience. Bruce Richardson, the sophomore who has remained undefeated to date has to endeavor to continue his record against seasoned midshipman Reynolds. It is only Bruce's inexperience in varsity matches that leaves any doubt as to the issue...
Four weeks ago, three days apart, Cadet Stella was elected captain of the Army football team for 1939, Midshipman Bergner was elected captain of the Navy football team for 1939. At last week's powwow, Kankakeemen, puffed with pride, appointed a delegation to see President Roosevelt to try to get next year's Army-Navy game transferred from Philadelphia to Chicago...
...conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when you drew the life stream 20 years ago, and where the heart still beats to love you dearly till its last sigh, which even then will love you best...
...Donald Douglas was a young Annapolis midshipman who preferred sailing on the Severn and making model airplanes to studying navigation and naval tactics. One day Midshipman Douglas climbed to the second floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then...