Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking the United States Congress to authorize sending engineering advisers, the same as we send military and naval advisers, when requested by other countries, to assist in road building. These gratifying changes are about to be supplemented by the establishment of aviation routes, primarily for the transportation of mails...
Navy Program. "It was a slap in the face for President Coolidge," said Representative McClintic of Oklahoma, Democrat. It was also another thwack for Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, when the House Naval Affairs Committee voted last week, 15 to 1, to rewrite the Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee...
...other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers to their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have been considered an hallucination. However, the announcement that the United States Naval Academy has recently become the first college of importance in the country to make the modern business man's relaxation a compulsory part of its curriculum substantiates the fact that great initiatory movements might have their inception in the most unexpected fountainhead. The penetrating of a new frontier...
Reasons are not wanting for the new step at the Naval Academy. It is pointed out that the midshipmen's social standing after graduation hinges upon their ability to distinguish between a putter and a mashie and that since they will associate with groups who indulge in the divertissement they must be among the initiated. Furthermore, those who have their welfare at heart emphasize the fact that the Navy develops men, not wallflowers, another reason why its protegees must know their golf. Indeed, it appears as though superdreadnoughts are going to be deserted for country clubs and the domain...
Besides the Harvard delegates to last week's meeting, and H. W. Clark '23 there were present Commander Ingraham of the United States Naval Academy Lou Young, and William Hollenback, of Pennsylvania, Jack Cates of Yale, Biff Jones of the United States Military Academy, Neil Flemming of Penn State, Reynolds Benson of Columbia, W. W. Roper of Princeton, Harry Heneage of Dartmouth, D. O. McLaughry of Brown, and G. B. Thurston of Syracuse...