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...remained for the late, great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to put down on paper for future Annapolis men the specific doctrine of the area's importance. "One thing is sure," he wrote, "in the Caribbean Sea is the strategical key of two great oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific; our own chief maritime frontiers...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
...Thayer followships to Duncan J. McDonald, of Dalhousie St., Que., Canada; Paul M. Marcus, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Arthur L. Selikowitz 2G, of Brooklyn...
...Thayer scholarships to Reginald H. Haskins, of North Bay, Out., Canada; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Ross F. Lockridge, Jr., of Bloomington, Ind.; and Charles H. Vivian, of Elizabeth...
...assist at graduation activities, E. Langdon Burwell '41, of Eliot House, Donald I. Lowry '41, of Winthrop House, and Philip Thayer '41, of Winthrop House, were appointed head Junior Ushers by the Class Day Committee yesterday, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, chairman of the Committee announced...