Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undefeated swimming squad faces the midshipmen of Navy Saturday night at Annapolis. The swimmers have downed Army, M.I.T. and Penn. The two service teams are in the same swimming league as the eight Ivy League schools...
Horrifying Anonymity. With plodding determination, Novelist Ott follows a class of enlisted sailors through a tour of minesweeper duty, a session of midshipmen's school and a chilling succession of raiding cruises with the North Atlantic submarine wolf packs (Ott, 34, began the war as a minesweeper seaman, ended it as an ensign on a submarine). His style is lumpishly Teutonic, and the translator's cliches do not make it any smoother. Ott's impersonal handling of his characters, though it gives a horrifying anonymity to their cockroach deaths, also makes for interminable, dull stretches...
...then it was too late. Navy had won, Academy Superintendent Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg III was already in the dressing room accepting an invitation to play Rice in the Cotton Bowl, and Ned Oldham, candidate for lieutenant commander in the Brigade of Midshipmen and scholar on the superintendent's list (Naval Academy equivalent of dean's list), had already insured himself a name and a place in Navy history...
Classes will meet daily until 2 p.m., during which the College community can observe how Harvard Midshipmen are trained...
...annual joint review of the Harvard Army, Naval, and Air Force ROTC units will be held at 3 p.m. this afternoon on Soldiers Field. An open-air reception for the reviewing party, and for midshipmen and their guests, will follow afterward near Watson Rink...