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There are three different tests which determine the suitability of a candidate for officership. The first, an eight minute physical efficiency test, has been used here by the Hygiene Department. If consists of merely stepping up onto a stool twenty inches off the ground, and then down again, to the count of "up-2-3-4, up 2-3-4 the command 'up' coming every two seconds." The heart rate is measured immediately afterward and at regular intervals for 3rd minutes, and the rating is determined by a special formula...
...Some men on both sides are so hungry for officership and so timid about hurting the feelings of some other leaders whom they know are in the wrong-that they will not help to bring about an agreement...
According to Lieutenant-Commander George H. L. Peet, who will direct the general aspects of the program, the Unit intends by physical education, not only to make its prospective officers fitter but to improve their qualities for officership...
...Fall of the Bastille and the Emancipation Proclamation, it is a symbol of what can be done, more than it is a concrete accomplishment. There is in the nature of this latest grant little indication of a change in attitude. A seaman's rating and an eventual petty officership may in themselves seem like the ultimate in advancement to the colored volunteer, who in the past has been suffered in the navy only as mess mate, steward, or cook. But on a comparative scale this move is hardly better than the closed door policy that the navy has clung...
...side) Perkins, 64, chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...