Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-04-04
COLLEGE BOYS TO Be
TREATED AS MIDDIES
tentative Rules for Naval Cruise
of 400 Students.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTION.
Routine Work on About Twenty U. S.
Ships to Include Series Of Lectures
by Experts on Technical Topics.
Part III
CONTINUED from yesterday

(Continded from yesterday
Special stress is put upon all of
them learning the tricks of the tur-
ret manipulation, taking an hours
drill each day as a member OF the
turret crew, the bedrock, in the words
Of the document, of all student in
| struction. Four hours. each day is the
| proposed time TO be spent in the
work of the elected instruction but
| the employment will not end there.
| ft is proposed that the students make
| themselves familiar with the entire
construction and arrangement of the
vesse, and acquire this knowedge both
| by direct inspection and by study of
| blueprint illustrations.
Thank TO the college authorities,
there is the further prospect of lee
| lures, one each week in each of the
outlined branches, under such topics
as these "The Administration of
the Ship, 'give nby the executive Off
| Ger; "The Construction Of the Ship,
| by the first lieutenant, if there be one
on board; Practical Aids of Naviga
tion, " by the navigator; First Aid
to the Wounded" by the surgeon;
"The Machinery Plant" by the engi-
neer officers of the ship; "The Elec-
trical Equipment, including the Ra-
dio, :" by the navigator or the ord
nance officer; Practical Ordnance
and Gdnnery" by the ordnance officer;
''The Purpose of The Navy and the
Fleet, its Organization and Manage
ment, I" by the captain.
Provision is also proposed for the
display Of the knowledge the men
bring aboard with them by discus
sion, which the schedule does not hint
but leaves to be inferred will be en-
tightening to the naval officials. No
distinction is to be made in the in
struction between the juniors and the
seniors from college, it being assum-
ed that they will not present any
striking differences ih the degree of
their previous information, the sur
mise being hat cit will be new to all
of them" The college authorities
propose, and it is passed up to the de
partment, that a careful record he
kept of each student and he is not to
sail away from the domain of marks,
marks on such matters as intelli-
gence, zeal, progress and all-round
adaptability. The records will have
their possible worth in making fur
Their recommendation as to "these
young men. 2"
Moreover, daily journal is advis-
ed for each of them, to contain their
observations of important things and
events observed on board ship, and
here the formal document does not
propose nor inhibit the publication of
some of che infant steps in naval dis
c)very. All the provisions have been
subjected to careful study by the
college heads and faculty who were
taken into counsel. A letter from
President Lowell went to Washington
with the other papers and it displays
the hearty interest with which the
Head Of Harvard received the pro-
iect. Professor Breckenridge, at
Yale, and Professor Jackson, of the
Massachuse it's Institute of Technol-
ogy, for "Tech" IS included in the in
stitution to help people the instruc-
ii IN cruise, were mentioned in the in
terview as among those who had bee n
contributors to the plans.
The students have been addressed
/ by the naval officers concerned and it
is in the undergraduate body that
the project reaches its highest mark
of enthusiastic approval. Not a sail
ing over summer seas, but thorough
going naval life and work. As the
prospect ISL is none the less proving
attractive. Attached to the recon-
mendations of the commander and
lieutenant com p ander, with their ap-
proval as a code of regulations, is a
copy of the general order for mid
shipmen which was in force on the
Rhode Island during the summer
cruise of 1912. 1t portends a regu-
lation of the summer conduct of stu
dents somewhat less relaxing than
the traditional one of the months of
July and August.
They will sleep in hammocks, If
these midshipmen rules are applied;
all turn out at 80. lash and stow
their own hammocks; find their mess
| gear spread by the attendants at the
same time as that of the crew; will
find such leaves as are granted them
expiring at IL p. m, will go ashore
in service dress and otherwise find
their conduct closely conformed to
the practice of the midshipmen. 1t
would be great mistake, says the
letter of President Lowell, "for any
feeling to arise that the students
were not under the same rule of the
sea as the midshipmen, and the per-
usal of the mass of papers in the case
supports the opinion that these men
from school will be not only in intent
and purpose but in actual practice the
most complete possible imitation of
the actual sons of the ea.-Christian
| Science Monitor.