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...Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
...Crosby '28, last season's star halfback who failed to top the scholastic hurdles this fall was responsible for the initial score of the scrubs. Intercepting a pass on his own 20-yard line, the fleet Junior back dashed 40 yards before he was downed...
...close of the Civil War in 1865," declared Commander Rice, "left the United States with a powerful fleet, but this was allowed to deteriorate during the following thirty years until there was only a collection of rotting vessels. A reaction came, and the construction of more modern ships followed...
...with a power vastly superior in naval resources and that our weakness in this respect might prove our undoing. The critical state of Cuba led Roosevelt to believe that an explosion in the island might occur at any time, and that the country would do well to have a fleet ready for action in the Caribbean Sea. The promptness with which our fleets swung into action at the declaration of war with Spain and the ease with which they demolished the Spanish Navy adequately demonstrated the wisdom of Roosevelt's policy, and impressed the powers of the world with...
...eminently fitting that today, the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt '80, should be set aside by presidential proclamation as Navy Day. More than any one man, perhaps, did Roosevelt build for a great fleet, and the modern navy is in great measure due to his efforts while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley," said Commander E. R. Rice, head of the newly-created Department of Naval Science and Tactics at the University yesterday...