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Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
...midshipmen get through four years without being "frapped" (reported for some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...
...meet in the middle of this month that was expected to highlight the summer sports picture at Harvard has largely been shelved because its two star attractions would not be available. Roland Sink, hailed by some sport writers as better than Gil Dodds, has been dropped out of the Midshipmen Supply School, and Dodds himself has heavy weekend speaking schedules for the Youth for Christ movement...
According to the super lieutenants' charter, they "will rank with, but below, lieutenant generals of the Army, full generals of the Salvation Army and aviation cadets and midshipmen of the Navy...
...three races this year and won all of them. His 4:17 mile in the New England A.A.U. last week made Boston sports columnists speculate that he may succeed to the crown which Dodds abdicated when he announced his retirement earlier this year. Sink is enrolled in the Naval Midshipmen's Supply School...