United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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■ nm actcc Hut. two. Iml. two — that ' s the memory which the Tactics Department left willi us. However, once upon a time, we liad a cliance to pla) sohlier with delijihtfully noisy hhuiks as fierce invaders or jirim defenders. In sharp contrast y i • ' rfW ' - ' Thai ' s S no, M—no. S — no, M. Lt. Freyniuller, coniniunications expert deluxe, would take us in liand each week and show us how not to wind ui) jiushing a hrooni in front of a marine. Seniapliore drill was the only rest the Tactics Department did allow us, but whats a military institution without drill? J hr liirlh nj the liidj-iutiTViil sti ' p. Hriidy j»r II hinir.

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U- ' Uto We who have ahsorhed our dose of ciilliire, served on tlie liall hrll. rahilc you. We lell llie acadtim with more than a knowledge ot basic eufiiiieeriu};. as well as a (■oni|)lele Irain- ing as offieer of the deck. You prohahly uiiuldn ' l believe it. but. thanks to our Lil-IIistory course, we also became voiced in Latin and Greek, with a literary knowledge of Plato ' s Republic, Aris- totle ' s Poetics and Walt Whitman. The aims of the course were indeed ambitious. As the first class to endure the course, we received both barrels. The course, during our Swab Year, consisted of a series of lectures delivered by Prof. Law- rence, Prof. Colby and Prof. Buron. There was much ado about the Grecian and Roman mas- ters and methods of Greek and Roman warfare. As armchair strategists we refought the battles at Thermopolae and Hannibal ' s Italian cam- paign. Later, we prayed for Charlemagne to come to Roland ' s rescue, toured the underground with Virgil and Dante, and finished the course with a whirlwind tour of American History. Prof. Colby. Prof. Biiroii. I J. Siln ' iilcrvr ii ho tlid their Ix-st to toss a littli ' ciillurv our ntiv. We have loriji suspecti-d the General Studies Department of personally suhsidiziuu the hook puhlishini: industry. 25

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if ■ • ' •) •) •) THIRD CLASS CWl