United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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English HE young naval aspirant meets the English Department early in his career. Long before Plebe Summer is well under way, evening lectures in Memo- rial Hall, and assignments in the Library, introduce him to those mem- bers of the English staff who are dramatically or studiously inclined, and it might be mentioned that the latter are in the majority. One of the members of the staff has been heard to State that he thought that without exception we had the best high school English course in the country. We should at least feel Hattered, but some of us like to feel a triiie more mature than that. lt takes the average midshipman the 27 rest of his course to recover from the effects of Hill, administered Plebe Year, Who would call a social event a function or speak of Craig's open field running as the feature of the game? English is the bane of a Plebe's exist- enceg as a Youngster, Naval History gives him a chance: and Second Class Year, Hamlet repays him for all the drudgery of the past. Even with the Burial of Math and English we do not lose this depart- ment, for who among us has not shuddered as he completely forgot his carefully prepared speech during one of those Reception Room dinners?

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illlluhern languages OME day somebody will devise a means of teaching or learning Dago, and when that day comes let us hope that the system will be adopted at the Naval Academy. When we stop to consider we wonder how any person can study a subject for four years and know so little about it as does the average midshipman about Dago. At times we even wish for a U. S. Naval AMGBRIY Inn an army., ,A,,,,,,HMM-4 umm- H In ummm moment that we might turn Dago, so as to see ,mm B-xzjhflfhjgnmtnlm ourselves as the Dago Profs see us. We are -... -..-..,...i..,.2'!!..H'f.f!'....-,...1...... spared the trouble of the metamorphosis, how- .......ga2.,. ever, by the perusal of the weekly trees and their - - - - is ' Aj summation in the monthly mark sheets. - We find no small consolation, however, in the knowledge that were the Dago Department to fall individually and collectively into the hands of the forces at the other end of their l corridor, the whole works would be hopelessly unsat. We are not the only unfortunates in this world and we are so fatuous as to believe fi . ,. ' . that our misfortunes are not nearly as great 1 . .,.. ,QL Q as theirs. '- jg, 'Wm' Math and Skinny may come and go, but nn-AI-w-uw. -. .. 7'-f max. u fr.-1 4.4-, 1.4 -1 I'-vw-1 Dago we have ever with us. 29