Naval Academy Traditions
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"Anchors Aweigh" (historical)
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. 1929 acetate recording performance of "Anchors Aweigh" by the United States Navy Band. Read more about this topic: United States Naval Academy Famous quotes containing the words naval, academy and/or traditions:“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?”” “I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike—and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two—are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.” “But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.” |