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Once admitted to this select company, a submariner rarely leaves voluntarily (though he may if he likes). He must be pushed out by age (40 is old) or disability or promotion. Many a sub captain (usually a lieutenant commander) regrets the third full stripe which costs him his ship and sends him to a more comfortable billet afloat or ashore...
...studying for tests, quizzes, brain teasers and feats of physical strength for the past two weeks... It's getting so bad that we study for the exams before we know who the teacher is or what course we are going to take....I am now with that very select group of men who go to the Study Hall every night...we get a lot of things done there....I washed out seven pairs of socks and a dozen of handkerchiefs just before they took muster of those present the other night...I'm thinking of taking up knitting next week...
...marked the starting time for a series of practical and theoretical tests and demonstrations by select units of the R.O.T.C. The Field Artillery demonstrated gun drill with four 105 hewitzer guns; the science of managing artillery battalions at field headquarters; motorized drill with a battery of 75a, infantry foot drill, and Army calisthenics...
...William Eddy suggested that they select two men to shoot it out with revolvers. Then "in a moment the obvious became obvious to them. . . . Someone would die soon." A blizzard began. Their fire sank through the snow and went out in slush that welled around their knees...
...John W. Ellison '44, Dana Fernald '46, Peter F. Kranz '45, and Lyman C. Wind '45. At present, Ellison heads the War Service Committee, Fernald is co-chairman of the Contact Committee, Kranz is Personnel Chairman, and wind leads the Social Service Committee. The new and old officers will select the summer Cabinet...