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From: brandon@nlm-mcs.arpa (Brandon Brylawski)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Naval vessel naming conventions
Summary: humorous note
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Date: 11 Nov 89 06:20:41 GMT
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From: brandon@nlm-mcs.arpa (Brandon Brylawski)

  A somewhat silly page in the history of ship naming (and I'm not 100%
sure it isn't apocryphal) was a brief period in the 20th century during which
it was decided to name certain ships after famous schools, e.g. Harvard and 
Yale. This practice was abolished (I am told) shortly after a pair of small 
vessels were officially named the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and 
the Virginia Normal School for Girls. So much for decorum...