Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-04
HAGUE FIRST HONOR
MAN or GRADUATES
Brilliant Californian IS Leading
Scholar Of Naval Acadernys
Greatest Class
TWENTY FOUR STARS

It was announced al the Naval
Academy this afternoon that twenty
four members of the graduating class
had obtained star rank for the
course, which means that they had 4
total mark Of eighty-Aye per cent or
better IN all studies for the course, and
that Midshipnlan Wesley Mel Hague
sof san Diego. Cal. had taken highest
honors. lis had zen expected.
Special interest attaches to the fact
that first lonors were obtained by
Midshipman Hague. as he was an en-
listed man III the service, and won his
appointment Is the Naval Academy
through the competitive examination
which III open 10 the enlisted mem
lers of the Nay and Marine Corps,
and which has III recent years been
greatly enlarged He is the first man
who entered tile Academy IN this way
to secure first honors or indeed, to
take very high scholastic rank
Mldshipnan Hague lead his next
highest competitor by q safe margin
MS mark being 544.69, while that Of
Mielshipinan Lloyd Harrison, Of Nc
Minnyille. Ohio was 52763 Evander
III sylvester. of Alexandria. Ia was
third. with 520.u6. Midshipman Roscoe
Il. Good, or Foaoria. Ohio. was fourth.
with 5lS.NI, and Nidshipman Raymond
e. Ferris. Of Newcastle, Del, VAS ffth
with 5l7.lf
The other stars iii the order Of
rank, arc 6. Lisie y AIaxson. Michigan;
/, Thomas If Robbins. Jr, California;
IS, Bennett t. Falknor Washington; 8,
Neil Ii. Slusser Utah 10, Horatio G..
Session, .Jr., Indiana; ii, Roy II Cow
.drey. Wisconsln: l2, Moultrie Moses
.slaf anna; lS. Laurence r Haugen.
Minnesota II, Joseph H Seyeryns
Washington 10. Paul b Nieheeker
california; I6. Nalter r Christmas,
Pennsylvania; a, Dewitt g. Relsgrave.
N, at large lis, Wallace n Dowd, AZ
kansas: ~, Emmett r. ForresteI New
York; 20. Roscoe HI Hillenkoeter. Mis-
souri,: 2l. Philip Lemler New York;
% Roswell 3. Daggett, Massachu-
sets; ~. Horaiio q Sickel, 4ta, Penn
sylvania IA. Harold s Van Burer,
Ma chusetts s
There are still about q dozen meTl-
bers Of The graduating class about
whose graduation there remains some
doubt. and the recommendations In
their eases are still With the Navy
Department Already number have
been turned back into the next class,
or, in some cases dropped from the
Academy II is therefore. impossible
10 say exactly how large the class
which graduates on Friday will be. III
is not likely to be more than 40, and,
even than. viii be larger BY nearly
fifty per cent than any class which
has gone before it
The fact that the class completed
the whole work of the four year course
in three, has placed heavy burden
on the average member, and caused
some to lose out who would have gone
Through with tho regular course with-
out special difficulty The class Is Of
iicialiy. the class Of 1920, being des-
ignated by the year iii which Il would
have been graduated had there been
no change In the course
The Academy will return to the ex-
act pre-war base at the end Of the
week, when the present third class
will be divided equally. according To
scholastic merit, the first half becom-
ing II first class, which will grad
Euate next June, and the lover half
becoming the second class, which will
graduate IN June Of 1921. Naturally,
there has heeIl much scrambling
among the average member 81 the
class. Those at both ends are not
worried the leaders because they are
safe, and the poor students because
they have no chance to make the up
per division, but those between have
been doing hard work since the plan
of division was announced. and the re-
sulf Is awaited with keen interest