Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-26
AT The
NAVAL SCHOOL

lished in 1916. In the very first year
of its existence a new word, synony-
nous with midshipmen, appeared,
says Army and Navy Life. 1t was
REFERS. It's appropriateness to the
men who reefed sails was noticeable.
This historic word is found in a let
ter that the late Commodore LETTERS:
U. S. N, wrote when he was a mem
Der of the first class of midshlpmen
sent to the Naval Academy. me
next birth was twins. When the
new midshipmen anne to the Naval
Academy it became a necessity to
have a designation for the two sets.
The midshipmen promptly coined
them. The older midshipmen were
oldsters and the news ones young
sters. This term remained as a dis
tinction to the last arrivals down to Il
score of years ago. In the mean
time the word plebe had been in
troduced as an appellation OF con-
tempt for the fourth-class men. This
word came to use when the Naval
Academy was at Newport, between
the years 1S61-1S66. Plebe and
mastery, when a natural selection
closed the contest, youngster becom-
Ing the special title of third-class
men, those who dated the fourth
class men one year, and plebe being
in the vernacular the name of the
latest arrivals.
AID is admiral superintendent, and
anchor a midshipman who has
dropped to the bottom of his class.
Ann is the feminine name of the abb
breviation for the annual examina-
ton. Femmes is the word constant
ly used for ladies in common con-
versation, and peaches designates the
~fairest sex, and a gold brick is a girl
who can neither talk, dance nor iooE
pretty. Bat means that the thing 20
which the verb or adjective is APP
piled has been well done; bazoo is
a literary production of a plebe or
fourth-class man at the order OF an
upper class man. 1t also means a III
diorouS message sent by an upper
class man to another upper class man
through means of a fourth-class man.
Biff is to do a thing well. Bilge is to
be dropped, dismissed, or be obliged
to resign. Bilger is a dismissed ca
Diet, or one who has been required to
resign. Bone means to study. Bones
is the nickname of physiology and hy-
giene; math for mathematics, and
skinny for physics. Boy is a term
applied to servants, and never to mid
shipmen. Bust is to fail at a recita-
ton or an examination. A buzard is
the insignia of rank of a cadet petty
oficer-an eagle perched on an an
Choir. Boojam is a four in studies
a perfect mark.
Dewberry is one who e~ncroaches
upon another persons dates. 1t also
means to obtain unlawful informa-
tion in a recitation or an examina-
ton. Doggy is interpreted to mean
swell. Drag means to drag a fem
me to a hop,V or escort here there.
1t also means to make much from
nothing, also to receive an inhala-
ton from a cigarette, and, as a noun,
is defined as a pull. A certain kind
of bread pudding is designated duff,
and a fiend is lone who biffs any
thing exceedingly we'll" Fume is to
smoke; gobzled is being caught in a
scrape; graft is a bluff, and grease
mean a bootlick, and an upper class
man amy get a grease; that is, be-
come popular by reporting a ratey
midshipman, sc it was stated by Mid
shipman Meriwether in his trial.
Greaser was long ago given as a term
of derision to the Engineer Corps of
the navy by the midshipmen of the
line, and in the remote period of the
origin of the new tongue gyrene stood
for marine, who was alo loosely
called a sea soldier. The bugle has
been changed in the midshipmen'8
vocabulary to the gugag; and a hand
out is described as grub from the
officers hop" Hit means to do m
thing well, and is synonymous with
biff and trap and frappe. 1.-THE hust-
lers' is the Naval Academy's scrub
team in football.
Insides has been assigned to mean
the tobacco that goes to make up a
cigarette. Jimmy Legs is the face
tious title of the master-at-arms,
who on shipboard answers to- the
chief of police on shore, and that
marine official is not at all agreeable
to mihchievous midshipmen such as
generally make upsthe personnel of
the corps. The plain word of sport
i've youth jump ean that the mid
shipamn has been run by a hazer or
by an officer or i%nstruc-
tor in a rough or severe manner.
June bug is the tile of a midshipman
entering in June, and to knock a
thing is to do it well. A May plebe
is one who enters the Naval Academy
in May, and a moke is a colored SER
want; mystery is hash, and a navy
girl is a young lady friendly to and
popular with the midshipmen. Pap
is the daily conduct report; parkle
is a wooden muse, that is, low in
his studies, given to writing verses.
Push means to smoke; rag is to re-
mort ono and also 'ftO rag an in