US Naval Training School at Harvard University - All Hands Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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ln leaving the l'larvard Naval Training School we are taldng with us to many corners oi a chaotic world the background ol organization and discipline, lcnowledge and tradition, good-fellowship and courtesy which has been insufficiently touched upon in the preceding paragraphs. The photographs which Follow will help crystallize remembrance. lt there has been levity in presenting some of these reminiscences it is not intended to reflect upon the training we have received, For naval ollicers, more than men in any other profession, must be able to see and laugh at the humor, the comedy and the absurdities with which late in general and naval lite in particular are so Filled. ln conclusion we might suggest that the Axis rush to its Hllag bag and Hbreal4 out on its highest truclcn the signal EMERGE 36Ol ll ALL HANDS are coming . . . from the deep South and from Oregon, from Vermont and California . . . each one with simple Faith and great determination. V lg

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till you get tlte yellow Fever needleln . . . VVl1icl1 arm did tlwey stab tltis time? . . . Both etc. Yet all of us came tlwrouglw, from small-pox to tetanus, and learned to take vvliat we lcnew was really a minor unpleasantness compared to sltrapnel in tlwe belly. We tool4 some pleasure, too. At Training Sclwool tlwere Was a little time For tlte Hliglwter side. llwrouglw our Executive Qtlicers, Statl Qflicers and tlwe student body itself tlwere was organized extra-curricular activity, extending from Glee Club, company baseball and rifle teams, to musical comedy relwearsalsi Tlwere were tlwe mass trips to Wellesley dances, vvitlw student otlicers in Uslwore leave dressi' . . . eaclw one a member of a ltand- Y 5 4 some band of brothers , iourneys to tlwe Navy Yard, tlwe nooks and crannys ot tlwe Qtticersi Clubs tlwere and in Boston tovvn,tlwe glittering Regimental Ball, and open-ltouse vvitlw punclt and pulclwritude at Plwillips Brooks l-louse. And mellovving Friendships tl'trougl'm the progressing days. S29

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