Word: midshipmen
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...taking these courses, Seniors who have not had mathematical training will be able to satisfy the entrance requirements for positions as Midshipmen in Class V-7 of the Naval Reserve...
...graduate in December. Its course had been cut from four to three and a half years; for the rest of the war's duration the course will be three years. But this "June Week" was distinguished from normal ones only by the weather (frosty) and an extraordinary guard: midshipmen stood watch everywhere with pistols; enlisted men at the gates made even officers' wives identify themselves. But midshipmen, not to be done out of the brightest week of their tough Academy grind, entertained their "drags" as usual, had their customary hops, "tea fights," farewell ball...
Above average in intelligence (candidates are nominated by Congressmen, but must pass a stiff entrance examination), midshipmen are trained in a strict code of regulations that governs every detail of their lives down to gum-chewing. By the time he graduates, a midshipman can be recognized anywhere by his straight carriage (not as stiff as West Point's), his poise, his fluency (every midshipman is trained in after-dinner speaking), his robust health...
...subject midshipmen like best is seamanship. Hardest: ordnance (largely theoretical instruction in ballistics, etc.). Biggest disappointment to the class that graduated last week was the loss of some of its summer cruises: in a world at war there were no warships to spare to practice on. Because future war classes will have to study during summer to finish in three years, midshipmen will practice on ketches, YP (yard patrol) boats and subchasers on the Severn...
...Army and Navy last week demonstrated that they are invincible, if only on a football field. In The Bronx and Philadelphia, on fields closely resembling duck soup, the Cadets and the Midshipmen kept their 1941 football records clean-Army for the fifth successive week, Navy for the sixth...