Word: midshipmen
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...elimination of the fourth mile will mean the extension of an invitation to Princeton and the Navy to compete with Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse and the winner of the Pacific Coast regatta on the Hudson next June. The Tigers and the Midshipmen have kept away from Poughkeepsie because of their opposition to the fourth mile...
...Polo Grounds the West Point men again triumphed over the Annapolis men. The Army has had the winning habit since 1913. Before that the Navy had had rather the better of the contests. . . . . . The midshipmen must manage, of course, to get back in their old football form as Yale has done, but Yale had suffered more from Harvard than Annapolis has yet suffered from West Point, and there is plenty of time. Congratulations to the Army and to the Yale men, but not a word of commiseration for Harvard and the Navy. There were two fair contests and the best...
...other hand, superior to the majority of teams with which the University has played early-season contests. It has, thus far in its schedule, split honors with Yale, and tied with the strong and fast Columbia team. But it has suffered defeat at the hands of the Annapolis Midshipmen whom the University beat, and at the hands of Villanova, a team which lost to Princeton in the latter college's first game of the season...
...trip was that with Mt. Washington, at Mt. Washington, Maryland, on Wednesday. The University was defeated by the score of 4 to 3. In the game with the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, last Saturday, the final result was 6 to 3 in favor of the Midshipmen...
Just what the reason is for this large amount of failure, or for the action of the authorities, is unknown. Many of the midshipmen claim that it is because of the unusually severe examinations. This is denied by the instructors, who state that they were of the customary standard. The real trouble is probably traceable to the fact that the court of inquiry which investigated the scholastic methods of the academy last year recommended abolishment of the "dope" system, as it was called, and an order forbidding the use of any kind of special help followed. This help...