Books with title Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis

TWO ADMIRAL'S IN THE BUD "Dave, I'm getting nervous!" "Is that the best way you can find to enjoy yourself?" demanded the taller boy. "But I am, Dave—dreadfully nervous!" insisted Dan Dalzell positively. "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. "Don't you understand?" demanded Dan, in a hurt voice. "The nearer we get to Annapolis the more nervous I'm getting." "You'd better drop off, then," hinted Dave ironically, "and take the next car back to Odenton and Baltimore. What earthly good would a Naval officer be who was going to get nervous as soon as he came in sight of an enemy?" "But I wouldn't get nervous in the sight the enemy," flared up Dan Dalzell. "Then why get nervous about the folks down at the Naval Academy? They all intend to be your friends!" "I guess that is true," Dan went on. "Of course, back in April, we went before the Civil Service Commission and took our academic examinations. We passed, and haven't got that to go up against again." "We passed the home medical examiner, too," retorted Dave. "In fact, you might say that we passed the sawbones with honors.

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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Dave, I'm getting nervous! "Is that the best way you can find to enjoy yourself?" demanded the taller boy. "But I am, Dave - dreadfully nervous!" insisted Dan Dalzell positively. "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. "Don't you understand?" demanded Dan, in a hurt voice. "The nearer we get to Annapolis the more nervous I'm getting." "You'd better drop off, then," hinted Dave ironically, "and take the next car back to Odenton and Baltimore. What earthly good would a Naval officer be who was going to get nervous as soon as he came in sight of an enemy?"