Word: midshipmen
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...sincere belief that Princeton lost to the Navy in the final contest of the 1928 football campaign not because her team was outclassed by the Annapolis eleven, but because her nominal adherents in the stands were effectively taken out by a vociferous and enthusiastic corps of midshipmen...
...usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats were reviewed on the south lawn. Followed a luncheon, with the Secretaries of State and the Navy present. Then, after an elapsed time of 1 hr. 40 min., back in the executive offices appeared the sack-suited president...
Glendon coached crews never have raced each other in a dual meet until this year-as you have stated-but in the 1924 Olympic tryouts, Glendon Sr.'s Navy Officers' crew met and defeated "Rich's" midshipmen. Yale, in turn, beat the officers' "Grandfather Eight" by a few yards...
...charges to let Watts stroke the first crew tomorrow, as he has been doing all this week. Captain Clark will be at No. 4, with Harrison taking his old berth. Penn and Navy, like Harvard, have been the underdogs in their races so far this season. Coach Glendon's midshipmen are going to the starting line with small comfort in having defeated Syracuse a week ago, for they have previously lost to Tech and Columbia. The Quaker staters have also matched up against the season's best crews, finishing last in regattas with Columbia and Yale, and Columbia and Princeton...
...trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...