The modern craze for dancing lias been condemned by a Belfast clergyman, who gave his opinion that it resulted in men and women being 50 per cent, less efficient for their work next day'. The name "midshipman” for cadets originated in the Navy about 200 years ago. The men who were going through a course of training to become officers were assigned quarters amidships on the lower deck. Hence they came to be called midshipmen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 35, 4 May 1927, Page 11
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