The United States Naval Academy: Being the Yarn of the American Midshipman ...
The United States Naval Academy: Being the Yarn of the American Midshipman ...
Park Benjamin
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Class privileges had grown up at the Academy almost from the beginning, and had hitherto been considered as conducive to its discipline. These the establishment of the conduct grades and the change in the quartering of the cadets tended to abrogate. The result was a condi- tion of affairs which temporarily impaired the discipline of the Academy. At one of the monthly examinations a cadet petty 320 The United States Naval Academy officer of the first class, for a certain grave dereliction, was d...eprived of his cadet rank, the Superintendent's order, as usual, being read at dinner formation. When the cadets marched out of the dining-room, after •dinner, and were in the lower hall of the building, the division of which the cadet mentioned had been a cadet petty officer, led by the cadet lieutenant commanding it, loudly cheered him — ^a proceeding which those who took part in it averred to be in accordance with a custom of the Academy. The Superintendent declined to recog- nize any such custom, and directed that the cadet lieu- tenant be deprived of his cadet rank for insubordinate conduct.
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