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Naval Science puts its members through a four year course, ordinarily, with a commission at the end. Designed to produce deck officers, the course emphasizes seamanship, navigation, gunnery, and communications. Students enroll for a four year stretch, and the present crop will all finish their college courses and must got degrees before they can be commissioned, although acceleration will made this far lees than a four year term for many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES, TOO PRECARIOUSLY CIVILIAN, DRILL, PREPARE TO ENTER INTO ARMED SERVICES | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

...well known around Company circles that Wally Owens was the straight man in a low comedy act back at Tufis College ... The "Renthouse Club" up on Malthew's fifth deck are seriously thinking of using the fire escape ropes to get to formation ... What they really need is some ingenious device to get them back to the mountain tops without climbing ... It should be good at the Statler tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beachcombers of Company D | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...TIME, Dec. 14), described his exhibition bout with a native champ. "It was murderous," said Corporal Ross, referring to the exhibition bout. ". . . This baby didn't mess around, and I was sort of out of practice. Nevertheless, science did the trick and he went to sleep on the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Below the surface a Japanese submarine faltered. The patrol boat circled, dropped more charges. Hurt this time, the Jap came up. With its deck guns it blazed away furiously at its attacker. The patrol boat fired back, turned on her searchlight. The little New Zealander was only 150 feet long; nevertheless she pointed her bow at the sub and charged forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Rum for the Crew | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

This hop is only supplementary to the regular one held on Wednesday evenings at the same place, on the top deck of P.B.H. from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

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