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Typical is the campus of the "University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
...Stahlmen won the first three games of the summer season against Brown, Quonset, and Tufts, bowed to Boston Coast Guard two weeks ago, 7 to 0, and were stopped by the Portsmouth Navy Yard Marines last Saturday, 6 to 5. Holy Cross has scored triumphs over Dartmouth, 4 to 3, and Yale, 2 to 1, the past two Saturdays...
Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson baseball nine faces a highly-touted Quonset Naval Air Station aggregation tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Quonset Point, R. I., in its second tilt of the summer season, and its second encounter of 1944 with Lt. Pete Appleton's team...
...Stahlmen met Quonset last spring in the year's opener and held the lead until the ninth inning when the bellbottom boys came from behind to snag a 4 to 2 victory. "Those sailors had the best-looking lineup we played against all spring," Coach Stahl remarked yesterday, and their 12-6 defeat of Yale this Wednesday shows that they are still dangerous competition...
Appleton, Quonset manager, was hurling mainstay for the Washington Senators until he enlisted in the Navy three years ago. He pitches for Quonset now in addition to managing and will probably start tomorrow...