Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whistling loudly he stepped through the gate and into the Yard. High above him was that fourth floor room in Middle Thayer where he'd spent his Freshman year. He remembered climbing those stairs for the first time, a bag in either hand, hoping against hope that his trunk would be there waiting for him, and his whistle became almost a chortle as he thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom...
...radio school is intended to have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman halls beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and expanding southward...
...notice, the Navy is establishing here one of three radio training centers. Each school will have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman dormitories beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and ultimately overflowing southward. President Conant's house, which he is vacating after Commencement, will be used as headquarters both for the new school and the Naval ROTC unit. The active officers will eat in the Freshman Union...
...Clay led off with a single to left and Thayer Drake sacrificed him to second. After Berg grounded out in advancing Clay to third, Clco O'Donnell sent his second hit to left field to score Clay. Gil Whittemore walked and Bart Harvey drove in O'Donnell when the Purple's shortstop errored on his grounder. When the third baseman missed the peg Whittemore raced home and Harvey pulled up at third. Mort Waldstein flied out to end the frame and the Crimson scoring...
...warfare. Pearl Harbor ended an epoch in naval history-an end to which the sinking of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and Repulse were only extra footnotes. The Navy now has put its full wartime emphasis on airplane carriers and on airborne attack. Blue-Water Men. The works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, for half a century, were the Navy's Bible...