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...Holloway Plan, which is designed to train officers for the Navy and Marine Corps as a supplement to Annapolis. Of the 23,000 who applied last November, only 1,800 students and 200 men from the fleet were accepted. These men get $50 a month during school term and midshipmen's pay on summer cruises...
...varsity after momentarily challenging the midshipmen for the lead, slipped into last place as Dartmouth and Tech fought for second. Only after stroke Larry Cabot raised the cadence from 37 to 40 did the varsity pass Dartmouth in the last 400 yards. Tech, however, held off the Crimson's challenge, finishing in 6:58.1 to the varsity...
From this time (1937) forward, Peter went about his Father's business at the whirlwind pace of a religious tycoon. When he was not converting a sin-sick Senator, he was charging down to Annapolis to read a sizzling sermon over the midshipmen, or bellowing Mairzy Boats at the church canteen for servicemen, or batting out flies with the kids on the parking lot, or marrying some sailor and his girl, or harrying the hangbacks on his board of trustees...
...Tetragonal meet went to Navy, the Midshipmen winning 54 matches. Princeton was second with 43 wins, and Yale third with 37, while Harvard trailed with 28 victories. The top individual performances for the Crimson were recorded by Rawls and Bill Pierskalla, who tied for third in the individual epee...
...Midshipmen come to Cambridge for their second meet in two days, having lost to an equally strong Dartmouth team, 44 to 40, in a close and taxing meet at the Winter Carnival in Hanover yesterday...