Word: midshipmen
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...letter to the editors of the CRIMSON charging that "all midshipmen" were being forced to participate in the exercises "at the expense of respectable academic classes" initiated the short-lived controversy. Other students claimed they had been told that hour exam and papers were the only excuses that would be accepted for missing the parade...
Harvard reestablished its claim to the Eastern baseball championship Saturday with a surprising 12-1 conquest of Navy at Annapolis. Powerless against the delivery of Paul Del Rossi and weak in pitching, the Midshipmen did not resemble the potnant favorites they are supposed...
...Shepard reports. However, Quaker coach Jack McCloskey has had weather problems earlier this year, and was unable to get his team out-of-doors as early as he would have liked. This may help to account for the 6-1 trouncing that Penn received at the hands of the Midshipmen on their Southern stint. On the other hand, Navy is a leading contender for the EIBL crown this year and is undefeated to date...
...Less flamboyantly spartan," Annapolis allows midshipmen to take majors and uses civilian professors in academic departments. But all department heads are naval officers ("often uninformed"), who come and go every three years. Tackling this problem, the Navy is now out to find Annapolis a civilian academic dean "of national rank." Boroff is not sanguine about the "Brother Rat mentality" at Annapolis, where foreign language study (a first-rate department) is known as "dago," and the catch-all department of English, history and government is called the "Bull Department...
...review will begin with a parada at 2 30 p.m. and will be followed by a drill competition among the three units, the presentation of awards to outstanding cadets and midshipmen and the march in review...