Word: midshipmen
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...Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University of Virginia's, 26-to-7. In the evening the Academy's superintendent, Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, addressed by radio...
...July 22, under Religion, you have quoted Chaplain Edward Aloysius Duff as follows: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than do men in civilian life." Chaplain Duff fails to mention that neither the 1,700 midshipmen at the Naval Academy nor the recruits at the various training stations have any choice in the matter of churchgoing. They go whether they want to or not. This accounts for a large proportion of the percentage of piety of the Navy. I have never observed any large church attendances...
...summer (TIME, June 24) had by last week spread to Virginia, dribbled into the District of Columbia. In North Carolina 496 cases had been reported; in Virginia 298; in the District of Columbia 22. The Navy ceased recruiting in Virginia and North Carolina. At the U. S. Naval Academy midshipmen were forbidden to visit the affected areas. Delaware compelled visitors from Virginia and North Carolina accompanied by children to report to local health officers for surveillance...
What Midshipman Wood did about it could not be revealed without getting him into trouble with Naval Academy authorities on the U. S. S. Wyoming, which is taking several hundred midshipmen around Europe with none too happy results.* Although admiring shipmates credited small Midshipman Wood with beating up the big Nazi, getting arrested and paying a $20 fine, the German Government officially informed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd that no such arrest occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots...
Navy negotiated the mile and three-quarter course in nine minutes, four and five-tenths seconds, to down the Crimson eight by a length and a half. Harvard threatened only once during the race, when they pulled up to within striking distance of the Midshipmen...