Excerpt: ... Darrin doggedly, "other men have stood this racket before us, and have graduated into the Navy. If they did it, we can do it, too. Mr. Trotter was telling me, yesterday, that the plebe year is the hardest year of all here." "Mr. Trotter is a highly intelligent individual, then," murmured Dan Dalzell. "He explained that the first year is the hardest just because the new man has never before learned how to study. After our first year here, he says, we'll have the gait so that we can go easily at the work given us ...
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Excerpt: ... Darrin doggedly, "other men have stood this racket before us, and have graduated into the Navy. If they did it, we can do it, too. Mr. Trotter was telling me, yesterday, that the plebe year is the hardest year of all here." "Mr. Trotter is a highly intelligent individual, then," murmured Dan Dalzell. "He explained that the first year is the hardest just because the new man has never before learned how to study. After our first year here, he says, we'll have the gait so that we can go easily at the work given us." "If we ever live through the first year," murmured Dan disconsolately. "As for me, I'm hovering at the 'unsat.' line all the time, and constantly fearing that I'm going to be unseated. If I could see myself actually getting through the first year here, with just enough of an average to save me, I'd be just as happy as ever a fourth class man can hope to be here." "Remember the old Gridley spirit, Danny boy," coaxed Dave. "We can't be licked-just because we don't know how to take a licking. We're going to get through here, Danny, and we're going to become officers in the Navy. It's tough on the way-that's all." "And we green young idiots," sighed Dalzell, "thought the life here was just a life of parading, with yachting thrown in on the side. We were going to feel swell in our gold lace, and puff out our chests under the approving smiles of the girls. We were going to lead the german-and, say, Dave, what were some of the other fool things we expected to find happiness in doing at Annapolis? "It served us right," grunted Darrin, "if we imagined that we were going to get through without real work. Danny boy, I don't believe there's a single thing in life-worth having-a fellow can get without working hard for it!" "There goes the call for mathematics, Dave. We'll tumble out and see whether we can get a two-six today. "Or a two-seven," suggested Darrin hopefully. "My, but how far away a full four seems! "Did anyone ever get a full...
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By the Author. Good in Good jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear to the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, 2" tear in the head of the spine of the dj and in the upper corner as well with a couple of smaller tears in the rear corners, pages are toning, front and rear hinges are beginning to crack, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Green cloth with black lettering and a black illustration on the front board and black lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 250 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "'Dave, I'm getting nervous! ' 'Well, you'll have to conceal it, then. The doctors at the United States Naval Academy won't pass any nervous wrecks, ' laughed Dave Darrin. It was the close of a beautiful June day in Maryland, and Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell were nearing the historic little town of Annapolis, the end of their journey....."
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