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REAR ADMIRAL RALPH EARLE, U. S. NAVY, (Retired) President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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REAR ADMIRAL RALPH EARLE, U. S. NAVY (Retired) D.Sc., D. Eng., LL.D. President U. S. Academy, 1896; D.Sc. (Hon.), W. P. I., 1925; D.Eng. (Hon.) Rensselaer, 1926; LL.D. (Hon.) Amherst, 1929; LL.D. (Hon.) Clark, 1930; Instructor in Electrical Engineering, U. S. N. A., 1910-11; Head, Department of Ordnance and Gunnery, 1915-16; Rear Admiral and Chief of Ordnance, 1917-20; President of Worcester Poly¬ technic Institute 192 5-. Commencement this year marks the sixth anniversary of the day upon which Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, U. S. Navy, assumed the Presidency of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The son of Stephen C. Earle, an eminent architect of Worcester, who designed Boynton Hall and several other buildings on the Tech campus, Ralph Earle, after passing through the public schools of the city, was a student at the Institute when he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in 1892. Thirty-three years later, having brought to a brilliant culmination his service in the Navy, he came home laden with honors, not, how¬ ever, to rest on his well-earned laurels, but to win new ones as the chief adminis¬ trative officer of his Alma Mater. Merely to list his conspicuous activities in the Navy would require a separate section of the Peddler. Afloat or ashore—whether as a young Lieutenant attempt ing to save shipmates from frightful death by a powder fire in the handling room of the MISSOURI, as skipper of the DOLPHIN when she precipitated the Tampico incident in 1914, as gunnery officer of a cruiser that won the Battle Practice Trophy for excellence in long range target practice, or as a teacher of electrical engineering, and later as Head of the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at the Naval Academy—his career was one of distinguished achieve¬ ment. And then, to crown his service, on December 23, 1916, he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department with the rank of Rear Admiral, being the youngest officer who has ever held that responsible position. He occupied this position during the entire period of America s participation in the World War, a time when the work of the Bureau was of infinite importance to America and the world. The two greatest achievements in which it had a major part were the origination and construction of the Northern Barrage, and the design and construction of 14-inch 50 calibre railway batteries that saw active service in France. The first of these achievements was the culminating step in the combating of the submarine while the second resulted in the cutting o the enemy’s main line of communication, after which, in the words of Genera Pershing nothing but surrender or an armistice could save his army trom com¬ plete disaster. Under Admiral Earle the Bureau’s part in these and other great enterprises was characterized by Joseph Daniels, then Secretary of the Navy, Tivcnty—fivc
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