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

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A year, a week, a day — each day, each week, each year, so vastly different and yet so similar — When we meet and retell our tales of midshipmen days, the tales will be of particular days and particular events. But always we will carry memories of the typical days of the week with their repeating class and drill schedules. For that reason, in order to better preserve those memories, we have set down here the typical day by day story of the typical midshipman. Observing no rules — for there were no rules to observe — we have plucked a typical Monday, a typical Tuesday, in short, a typical work-a-day week to tell the story of life as a mid- shipman. At times we have recorded the transi- tion of particular events that are treasured memories of us all, but on the whole this record has been made a typical one. Our war-shortened course has necessitated the use of pictures taken during years other than First Class Year — the one we prefer to remember. It has necessitated, as well, the sub- stitution, in places, of pictures other than those in- tended, for the desired ones have been censored. Nevertheless, we have endeavored here to preserve for our memory and for posterity the story of a midshipman day by day. WE END THE WEEK AT CHAPEL. SATURDAY FALL OUT THE DIIfERS! .-X f.

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-■mmmmm k m WEDNESDAY IS ALWAYS THE DAY OF P-WORK AND P-RADES THE PLEBES PRAY FOR RAIN THAT DAY.

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mm Vl r, ' :...r U . ;;A-i ' iS ?.ti.L1i!. mmimmm M E D A W i MOIDIY I e 1 H feepily EVEILLE at o6ir on Monday morniner ur work-day week with the dis- cordant note of reveille bells blasting its mto our pleasant dreams. Sleepy charge of room for the week ' Ort, All turned out, sir! to the spector. Then, in the scant thirty minutes before breakfast formation, the same sleepy men shave, dress, and scan the headlines of a morning paper. In the mess hall, the plebes sing the good word for Monday morn- re