The New England magazine . ddi-tion to one to be appointed by the Governorof Porto Rico. All candidates for admission MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 83 to the Naval Academy must be betweenthe ages of sixteen and twenty years, themaximum and minimum age-limit havingbeen changed at various times. No boyshall be admitted from a foreign countryunless by a law hereafter to be enacted. Owing to the great need of officers con-sequent upon the building of the new navy,the large modern classes of midshipmenhave been graduated of late years in Feb-ruary instead of in June of each year, and called Youngst
The New England magazine . ddi-tion to one to be appointed by the Governorof Porto Rico. All candidates for admission MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 83 to the Naval Academy must be betweenthe ages of sixteen and twenty years, themaximum and minimum age-limit havingbeen changed at various times. No boyshall be admitted from a foreign countryunless by a law hereafter to be enacted. Owing to the great need of officers con-sequent upon the building of the new navy,the large modern classes of midshipmenhave been graduated of late years in Feb-ruary instead of in June of each year, and called Youngsters and the fourth class-men Plebes. The latter enter the acad-emy in June, immediately following thedeparture of the Grads, and those whohave been Plebes become correspond to raw recruits in thearmy, and it is necessary, therefore, of course,for them to be licked into shape in moreways than one. The officers of the academyattend to the business of teaching them totoe the mark, but the upper-classmen have. The Maryland State-house he class of 1907, indeed, was divided intohree sections, graduating respectively inSeptember, 1906, and February and June,:9o7. This practice has resulted in the sort)f cramming that is now decided to be soleleterious to the mental and physicalitrength of the midshipmen, and it is prob-able that the recommendation of the Offi-|:ial Board of Visitors, indorsed by the NavalBoard, that hereafter no classes be gradu-ated until they have completed the full fourfears course, will be adopted and At the academy, the third classmen are from time immemorial undertaken the re-sponsibility of teaching the Plebes howto behave in the presence of their up, fagging, and runningbecame, under due process of evolution, hazing, and out of that practice, reprehen-sible or salutary according to how it is re-garded, has grown the serious disorder andcases of brutality which a year or two agoended in the death of a midshipman
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