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Gentlemen, Be Seated! Now that you're fully recovered from your weekend "rest" after exams, you may want to be set for a relapse. The long awaited decision on the fate of Midshipmen who "fail to achieve the academic standard of this school" will be disclosed today. A five word summary of said decision is "Back to line Midshipman School...
Because of the fact that Midshipmen now in attendance at this school have not completed their basic as line officers, unsuccessful Supply Corps candidates (and may their number be few!) will be transferred to a Naval Reserve Midshipman School. They will enter as Midshipmen and will not be required to repeat the apprentice seaman's indictrination. It is not at present known whether selection of the line school will be left to the men, or how soon they will be required to report. However, they will be given an opportunity to leave this station before May 31, and will have...
Grades in all courses will be posted on May 31. However, judgement by the Scholarship Committee will have been made on deficient Midshipmen before that date. Each man whose case is so considered will be interviewed. So, it appears that no interview by Friday of next week should be assurance enough to permit a minimum of celebration on Saturday...
...memorandum to be addressed to all Midshipmen states that, because they are not suited to this type of work, second tries at the course here would not seem profitable. Conceding the present urge for immediate active duty afloat, the announcement continues: "However, the Supply Corps now needs, and always will need superior officers, and the only way to achieve this end is to subject its personnel to rigorous and eternal intensive study. That is the purpose of this school. Not every college graduate is cut out for this type of work, and the School is interested only in those...
...contrary, is expected to remain open after July 1. A shell of its former self now that formal football has been abolished, the Quincy Street office will still be handling whatever athletics are going on around the University, including the supervision of softball tournaments now being run among the Midshipmen at the B-School...