Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves on the deck of the battleship Utah as she bucks the tides of the island-dotted lower harbor of Boston. The Utah is bound for the trial courses off the Maine coast; as members of her crew these eight students will be not merely witnesses, but participants in naval manoeuvre...
...most agreeable features of the advent of Naval Science to Harvard has been the spirit of practicability which has permeated even the first year of the course. The presence this week of students in Harvard College in the crew of a United States battleship is not an innovation; there were similar trips last spring for the Freshmen registered in Naval Science 1. Eagle Boats took parties on a week end course of instruction, and late in June fifteen students cruised south to Annapolis. The satisfactory completion of a novitiate that included long vigils on watch and five hour stretches...
Eight Harvard men, students in Naval Science 2, will leave tomorrow on a five-day cruise on the battleship Utah, which is sailing to Rockland, Maine, for her engineering trials...
Captain Littlefield of the Utah, owing to the fact that several of his junior officers will be temporarily absent, notified the Harvard Naval Science Department that eight members of that branch of the R. O. T. C. might make the cruise. They will rank as midshipmen, and the only expense is one dollar a day for meals. The Utah will leave early Saturday morning and return Thursday...
Artillery roared one day last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral...