Won for the Fleet: A Story of Annapolis (Classic Reprint)
Book Details
Author(s)Fitzhugh Green
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1330519930
ISBN-139781330519936
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Excerpt from Won for the Fleet: A Story of Annapolis
Annapolis is the most remarkable institution of its kind in the world.
The education it provides is essentially engineering: marine and civil, electrical and mechanical, finally naval. Also no midshipman escapes instruction, even proficiency, in less than three forms of athletics.
The Naval Academy is unique in two distinct ways: By intensity of the traditional class spirit is begun that unparalleled esprit dc corps which makes our Navy the greatest in the world. By the summer cruises is provided a species of education no youth should reach manhood without.
Won for the Fleet is a tale of two boys, one physically brutal, the other physically deficient. Four years at Annapolis moulds and forges, tempers and anneals, their two characters. The bully is refined; the weakling fibred. False standards of both are overthrown. From two awkward young animals are made two men - two gentlemen. From two instinctive enemies are made two fast friends.
It is a tale of adventure and vicissitude, true to the middie's life, by one who has lived and loved it!
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Annapolis is the most remarkable institution of its kind in the world.
The education it provides is essentially engineering: marine and civil, electrical and mechanical, finally naval. Also no midshipman escapes instruction, even proficiency, in less than three forms of athletics.
The Naval Academy is unique in two distinct ways: By intensity of the traditional class spirit is begun that unparalleled esprit dc corps which makes our Navy the greatest in the world. By the summer cruises is provided a species of education no youth should reach manhood without.
Won for the Fleet is a tale of two boys, one physically brutal, the other physically deficient. Four years at Annapolis moulds and forges, tempers and anneals, their two characters. The bully is refined; the weakling fibred. False standards of both are overthrown. From two awkward young animals are made two men - two gentlemen. From two instinctive enemies are made two fast friends.
It is a tale of adventure and vicissitude, true to the middie's life, by one who has lived and loved it!
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
