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Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant...
...vestige of the belief that U. S. colleges are educational institutions is the almost universal rule forbidding students to play on Varsity athletic teams before they have completed one year of academic work. Exceptions have been West Point and Annapolis. Many a "plebe" has won many a game for these institutions against opponents who denied themselves the assistance of freshmen. Last week, however, West Point announced that, beginning next year, it would forego this genuine advantage, in the interests of "improved athletic development and relations...
...General Bullard was Pershing's classmate at West Point (1885). General Duncan was a plebe when Pershing and Bullard were yearlings. Generals Morton and Hale were in the Class...
Crew practice at Annapolis started recently, when fifty candidates reported to Coach Richard A. Glendon. This is Glendon's nineteenth consecutive season at the Naval Academy. Candidates for the Plebe crew, who have been working most of the winter under the direction of R. S. Glendon, Coach Glendon's son, are making good progress...
...Mess Hall, each table is presided over by a cadet-officer, who is principally engaged in dispensing information upon all topics whatsoever to the Yearling, and in seeing that the Plebe pours out the water promptly...