ANNAPOLIS TODAY
by Kendall Ban-ning '02. Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1938, p.364. $2.50.
Naval expansion is one of the major current news topics. New ships of war of all types are being built as rapidly as our permanent ship-building concerns can produce them. In short, an enlarged Atlantic Fleet seems to be the immediate need for the proper defense of our eastern seaboard. These new ships of war need sailors, but most of all they need large numbers of competent, vigorous officers technically and tactically efficient to "fight the fleet." Miles of newsprint describe the building and launching of ships of war, but very little is printed about their personnel. Can we train efficient officers rapidly enough to meet this pressing need, and how are they trained? Mr. Banning has answered these and many other questions about our Naval Academy in this timely review of our facilities for training naval officers in his book Annapolis Today. This work is a companion volume to West Point Today which was presented to the public last year by the same author.
Banning's approach to the Academy is the same as his approach in West PointToday by taking an appointee to Annapolis through his qualifying rounds of admission, then as a plebe, to his final commission as an ensign in the Navy of the United States. In this way the book is humanized and all the technique of training and education are carefully described at the several levels of promotion.
The Naval Academy is in essence a huge technical college and does grant the degree of Bachelor of Science to its graduates. It does not pretend to offer a college education in the sense of the liberal arts but it surpasses most of our technical schools in those branches of learning in which the naval officer must excel. Banning is a master of descriptive writing. He has a lively and appealing style which carries the reader from Bancroft Hall to Farragut Field, from Dewey Basin to the Japanese Bell, from Worden Field to the "Reina Mercedes," from "drags" to "cutthroats" without the boredom so common to this type of book. One marvels at the completeness of the treatment. Here certainly is a three hundred and sixty page animated encyclopedia about Annapolis including an extensive "log" and "lingo" section. Even visitors, casual or regular, are told when, and where, and what. There are many entertaining anecdotes of our historical figures naval and otherwise, as well as many odd items of history which do not commonly appear in our school textbooks. Authentic, timely, and very readable is Annapolis Today.
BRIEF MENTION
Gee, but it's nice in Vermont, by Robert Davis '03, has been published in a brochure of 8 pages.
The standardization of hydrogen iondeterminations. 11. A standardization ofthe pH scale at 38°, by David I. Hitchcock '15 and Alice Taylor, has been reprinted from the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETY.
Amphoteric Properties of Amino Acidsand Proteins, another paper by Dr. Hitch- cock, has been reprinted from THE CHEMISTRY OF THE AMINO ACIDS AND PROTEINS by Carl L. A. Schmidt.
The Inaugural of William Harold Cowley as the Eleventh President of HamiltonCollege Saturday, October 29, 1938, has been published as HAMILTON COLLEGE BULLETIN no. 1 of vol. 22. This pamphlet contains the inaugural address of President Cowley '24 together with an address by President Hopkins delivered at the inaugural luncheon.
The Ascorbic acid content of chickblood, by Arthur D. Holmes '06 and Francis Tripp has been reprinted from the Novemeber issue of THE JOURNAL OF NUTRITION.
The February issue of READERS' DIGEST contains an article by Jerome H. Spingarn '35 entitled These Public Opinion Polls-How They Work and What They Signify.
The Kennebunks at High Tide, a Guideto Famous Landmarks, a History of theKennebunks, 1603-1938, a Detailed Mapof Coast, Rivers, and Highways, by George K. Sanborn '2B has recently been pub- lished.
The December issue of THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY contains a leading article by H. Telfer Mook '38, entitled TrainingDay in New England. The article is a part of a longer study dealing with the same subject made last year while the writer was Senior Fellow. It describes the early New England militia system, including the "training day", which was one of its most characteristic features. The writer shows how training day persisted long after it had ceased to be of any military significance, and gradually took on the character of a local community social event. The article contains a number of amusing incidents taken from contemporary descriptions of these early musters, and affords a good illustration of the possibilities available to undergraduates in the field of research in local New England history. Mr. Mook is at present studying history at Cambridge University, England.
Blackie-Life Tenant, by Charles F. Haywood '25, appears in the December 25th issue of the BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MAGAZINE.
The November issue of THE ENGLISHLEAFLET contains an article by Roland Barker '24 entitled A Step Toward Improved Reading Skill among Secondary-School Pupils.
The January number of the NEW HAMPSHIRE TROUBADOUR is more or less of a Dartmouth issue. Besides an article by Mr. Goodrich, Librarian, on snowshoeing, there are articles New England Looks atSki Teaching by F. K. Sayre '33; NewHampshire Skating by Harold Putnam '37; poem The Ski Jumper by A. W. Edson '25, reprinted from Dartmouth Verse; Art Below Freezing, by Richard L. Brooks '39, and Ski Jumping by Carl E. Shumway '13.
The Histoid of York County, Maine, by- Ralph S. Bartlett '89, an address delivered by Mr. Bartlett at exercises held in Eliot, Maine, August 29, 1937, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of York County in the Province of Maine, has been printed in a pamphlet of 21 pages.
The Teaching of the History of American Education in Secondary Schools by Richard E. Thursfield '31 appeared in the November issue of SECONDARY EDUCATION.
Recent publications by Richard Eberhart '26 are: R. G. E., a poem in the January 4th issue of the NEW YORK TIMES;Poets and the European Sickness, in the mid-winter number of the VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW; A Tribute to T. S. Eliot, in the HARVARD ADVOCATE for December—the whole number of this magazine is devoted to Eliot. On December 9th Mr. Eberhart broadcast some of his own poems from Boston over a world wide short wave network. A recording was made of this.
Regulation of Corporate Finance andManagement under the Public UtilityHolding Company Act of 1935, by John F. Meek '33 and W. L. Cary has been reprinted from the HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
Freshman Library Orientation, by Edward B. Stanford '31, in the January 15th issue of the LIBRARY JOURNAL.
Day-letters from Wallace Rusterholtz ('31), a brochure of thirteen poems, has been privately printed by the author in an edition of 100 copies.
From Proctorsville to Proctor (the story of Red field Proctor '51), by David C. Gale '03, has been published in the February- issue of YANKEE.
Two recent publications of James Curry '25 and C. L. Hazelton are The Solubilityof Carbon Dioxide in Deuterium Oxideat 25°, and The First Thermodynamiclonization Constant of Deuterio-carbonicAcid at 25°, which have been reprinted from the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
Richard J. Lougee '27 is the author of Physiography of the Quinnipiac-Farmington Lowland in Connecticut.
Higher Education in the Caribbean(part one) by Isaac J. Cox '96 has been printed in the February issue of the NEWSBULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION.
Variations in the weight of birds, by the late S. Prentiss Baldwin '92 and S. Charles Kendeigh, has been reprinted from the July issue of THE AUK.
Simon and Schuster have just published We saw it Happen, The News Behind theNews That's Fit To Print by 13 Correspondents of the New York Times. This volume is edited by Hanson W. Baldwin and Shepard Stone '29.
The Cults of Lanuvium, an article of 43 Pages by A. E. Gordon '23 has been published in volume 2, no. 2 of STUDIESIN CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
