Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-07-30
CLASS 1921 U. S.N.A.
RAPIDLY FORMING
Strenuous Schedule of Exercise
Daily For Plebes
ORGANIZED CHOIR
Fourth Classmen Show Excellent Quail
ity of Initiative.

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The new Fourth Glass, now rapid
ly forming at the Naval Academy, and
| officially known as the Glass of 1921,
is under strenuous schedule of exer-
cises and regulations. The members
have found of a truth that they are
in the Navy now" From morning till
night and far in the sultry eve they
are at hard work, pulling oars, drill
ing, practicing at the rifle range,
working in the gymnasium and learn
ing the language of their mother
| tongue.
| Rowing on the Severn in the long
7 cutters of the Academy under the
/, broiling July suns, is the most labor
| ious section of their schedule work,
while the weakened conditions of
| their physical condition under tn in
jections of anti-typhoid serum in their
| veins added to the trials of the novi-
ces in the Navy. Forty of the neo-
phytes from this treatment were in
the hospital at once. This test is soon
over and the battalion is not long lost
of the services of the vaccinated.
The new Fourth Classmen are a
vigorous and alert organization. The
membership is ambitious and took on
at once the midshipmen poise and
swing as they march to and fro from
their duties and exercises. As three
hundred of them-the number of the
| class membership at that date stood
at attention uring the graduation ex-
ercises on June 29th the superinten
| dent was asked: "Who are these?"
They" replied the proud head of the
Naval Academy, "are midshipmen who
have been in here individually from
three days to three weeks.
The Fourth Classmen have already
pride of service They are oberving
| all of the unwrietten rules, customs
and rates of the unwritten law
amongst the midshimen They turn
corners square, they keep out of Low
er's Lane, and eschew sitting on the
First and Second Glass benches in the
I campus.
With all their care, however. when
| ay upperlassman is present they find
| that they all into evil days. One of
| the fourth classmen was on duty
during the brief stay of the First
| Classmen with them and was given an
order by him ito wake him up at five
| O'Clock The punctual Fourth Glass
man at five a. M, performed his duty
| as he though, and received a terrible
"raking over the Goals" because he
| had not delayed the call until five p.
M, which if he had done, the blowing
up" would have been still worse for
having committed the folly of having
| called a man in the afternoon instead
of in the morning. The upper class
man had fixed it to try the plebe
either way
| The new class though still in the
| process of formation has evolved it's
own bugle and drum corps by which
| it forms and marches. They also have
| an organized choir that leads the
chapel singing. In every way the
| student body of the Academy move on
with order and regularity, and to the
| stranger at the passing view, the alb
sence of the upper classmen, except
/ for numbers is scarcely noticeable
The work of the day is divided into
five periods-First from 7.30 to $50
a. m; second-100O to 11.3O a M;
/ third-120 to p. M; fourth-3.50 to
Is D. M; fifth-73O to $50 p. IN.
In these several periods are prac-
tice at the rife rtnge, seamanship,
work at the gymnasium, explana-
tions of the regulations, practical
work, languages and English, with
lectures upon naval subjects.
The midshipmen have also recre-
alton period on Wednesday afternoon
and on Saturday evenings an orches-
ira from the Naval Academy band
gives a concert in the auditorium
which is exclusively for the Fourth
| Classmen. There will be change of
program on August 10th. The Class
is allowed no leave from the Naval
Acadmey except on National holi-
days.
From the number of reflections for
physical defects, it now appears that
the membership of the class will be
in the neighborhood of 700 /, unless
there is another examination for ad-
mission this year.
The membership of this class, be-
fore even the examination htd begun
to form showed that excellent quail
ity-the initiative-that makes the
American soldiery invaluable and in
vulnerable. About the time Of the ar
rival of the English and French com
missions in American waters,a French
lfrigate anchored in the Roads Of An
napolis This fact and the sight OF
the friendly bluejackets Of the French
Navy in the streets of Annapolis ex-
cited the patriotic desire in the candi-
dates for admission to the Naval
Acadmey who were here studying for
their entrance examinations to visit
ship Of their Allies. They made up a
purse and hired a large motor-boa'
and sailed out to the Frencnman
They were refused visit TO the snip
AS they were about to turn sorrow:
fully away, bright man applicant