Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many such people, together with those who rightly wish to keep academic cloisters free from the correspondence variety of learning, have already hinted that the course in naval science about to be inaugurated at Harvard, is as repulsive (as it is unnecessary. The one sees learning hitched to the anachronistic chariot of war: the other visions an even more despicable pantomime. Neither is exactly correct...
Inclined to the belief that schools which concern themselves solely with the development of military or naval officers are becoming more and more impotent in matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without...
...certain, if one believes that the administration. In admitting this new branch of mental discipline so establish and maintain high standards that this particular curriculum has the respect of the student body. And one may certainly expect such high standards to prevail. Nor is the study of naval science so near the correspondence variety of pseudo learning as one can imagine...
...weeks before war was declared, the "Unit," expanded to 29 members, was "ordered" from college by the Navy Department to its self-appointed training school, with seaplanes and mechanics provided by private subscription. There were no uniforms, no drills, no salutes. There were the "Lieut," the naval officer in charge; the "Colonel," combination chaperon and supply officer, a civilian; except for these two, everybody called everybody by his first name. The team work of a football field took the place of military discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were...
They were sent to England, to France, to Italy, to South America, to Washington, to the U. S. training stations. The "Unit" furnished commanding officers for three air stations; also the nucleus of the Northern Bombing Group. Submarines were bombed, airplanes shot down by "Unit" members; Dave Ingalls became naval ace, with four planes and a balloon to his credit; Di Gates, Commander of an air-station, was recommended for the Congressional medal of honor for heroism. Three* of the "Unit" were killed-two in action. Destroyers were named for these two. Wherever there was naval aviation, there...