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...during the year 1845 that George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy under President Polk, decided that there must be a school for training naval officers. So he went to the War Department and got it to sign over to the Navy the land on which had stood Fort Severn, at Annapolis, Md., and there on Oct. 10 of that year the U. S. Naval School was opened with Commander Franklin Buchanan as Superintendent. Five years later the school was reorganized and rechristened "The U. S. Naval Academy." There, where it first took root, the Academy has flour- ished ever since...
There are those admirers of Miss Sinclair who recall the days of The Divine Fire and Mary Olivier with regret and find in them their favorite work of this novelist; but, for me, the foolery of Mr. Waddington of Wyck, the perfection of detail in Ann Severn and the Fieldings, the devastating character portrayal of A Cure of Souls seem more intensely original, more characteristic of her and of her time...
...highly significant to Harvard crew enthusiasts will be held at New Haven and Annapolis this afternoon. The first, second, and 150-pound Eli crews will meet the corresponding eights of Columbia and Pennsylvania, the same opponents who will face Harvard a week hence in Boston, while on the Severn river at Annapolis three similar Princeton boats will try their skill against the Naval Academy oarsmen...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...
Navy the other big race of the day it would indeed be surprising if Penn should come in ahead of Annapolis on the Severn River. But not a few were surprised last week when Penn beat Yale, and it is not outside the realm of possibility, therefore, that Penn will defeat the navy, while she is sure too offer a good race. Annapolis, however, has remarkable crew with six of the Olympic champions in their seats again this year, and it will take all of Penn's ability and spirit to make her concede defeat...