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Speaking in a broader sense, taking the Shearer controversy more as a text than as an isolated case, Captain Wygant said...
Captain B. B. Wygant, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, declined to speak of the Shearer situation specifically, because he knew nothing about it excepting what he read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., has been detailed to duty as Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard. Captain Wygant will be in charge of the Naval Science Department and four of the five members of his teaching staff will be new to the College. The names of three of his assistants have just been made public, the fourth has not yet been made known, and Lieutenant Commander L. J. Wiltsie, who served throughout the year 1928-29, will again be an assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant entered the Naval Academy in 1897 and served as a Midshipman in the Cuban Blockading Squadron in 1898. In 1904 he commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters...
Those who attended the afternoon's exercises as representatives of R. O. T. C. units in other Eastern colleges were Colonel Parke, of Connecticut State University; Major Lang, of the University of Maine; Major Guild, of Johns Hopkins; Major Wygant, of Wesleyan; Captain Gillespie, of Yale; Captain Twiss, of Rutgers; Captain King, of the College of New York; Captain Dove, Rhode Island State University; Captain Kernan, of New Hampshire State College; Lieutenant Rugg, of M. I. T.; Professor Hooper, of Tufts; and Lieutenant Andrew, of the United States Army Aviation Corps...