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

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° Jo John Tau! Jones whose farsightedness and indomitable courage gave us the foundation ofourJVavu. Eighty-five years of service have seen the passage of many men from the Naval Academy, and with each year a striving to add something more. For this is the fascination, the privilege of Youth, ever to be vibrant, ambitious, hopeful, idealistic. Youth, the builders of the future, always seeking to add one more atom to past successes. With high deeds they will prove them- selves faithful to the traditions of those who have gone before them, — it is not for us to add with high words or promise more. Thus it has been and thus we have faith it will ever be. And so to the spirit of a man who was first a youth and a fighter, and to the spirit of the Navy that he has handed down to us, we dedicate our atom of Carry On .

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ONE other than a gentleman, as well as seaman, both in theory and practice, is lified to support the character of a com- missioned officer in the Navy, and no man fit to command a ship of war who is not also capable of communicating his ideas on paper in language that becomes his rank. ' In these words did John Paul Jones state the qualifications of a naval officer; to paraphrase them would be but to weaken them. It is enough to say that time only has proven them true. To be gentlemen of lib- eral education, refined man- ners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor, as well as seamanlike offi- cers is not an easy goal. In the path of our great captain let our steps be sure.