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' DEPARTING U i COKING back, we see our life at the Naval Acadeni - not as a series of isolated events to .be recorded in chronological sequence as so many who ' ■i ' i , ha c gone l)cforc us haxe done; for to those of us who ha ' c lived them, June Week, the Ring Dance, Gradua- , ■ ■ ■.. i : tion are more than welcome events in the academic cal- endar. The ' are experiences iiill of humor, pathos, tenderness , . . elements which escape tlic constrictions of time. ... Taken as a whole, howex ' er, these individual ex- Pericnces- episodic and disconne , l|iey., ay seem-- tell a story. ... It is our profound hope, then, in the 1941 Lucky Bag to accomplish a two-fold purpose: to recreate each experience as we knew it so that in later
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■ MAR ADMIMI W L.SON MOWN Superintendent U. S. Naval Academy CAPTAIN F. 4. L VO.S.SLfR Commandant of Midsfijpnieii
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years wc niax ' rcli c our iTii(lshif)inan career and to combine these experiences into a story that vill enable all vho ha e never known the Naval Academy as vc haxe to understand its tradi- tions, purpose, accomplishments, and customs. Toda ' we oiaduate; tomorrow we go to join the fleet, but eslerday. . . . ' eskM(la ' we entered the academy. We expected much. A great deal has been said of the lure of the sea; little has been said of the lure which attracts and holds the fancies of hun- dreds of oung men from every station of life and every stale in the union. Much has been said of tlu discipline and die training of the Naval Academ ' ; little has been said of how an in- stitution manages to combine hundreds of creeds, hundreds of ideals, Iiundreds of diverse philosophies of life into one single, useful wa ' of living— a service life ot honor, patriotism, virtue, loyaltx ' , and subordination. Mow was it accomplished? Tlie secret lies hidden in the ears. WV cannot now retrace oui- steps, but ve can foetus the telescope of time back— back— all the wa - back to gray walls and green grass ... to honor and duty ... to wind and sea . . . to laughtc r and music.
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