entirely composed of Navy men. Several Harvard men were in the same area, although there were none in his own squadron, and he exchanged Alumni Bulletins with them.

According to Torbie, the Australian troops are among the hardest-hitting fighters in the world, ranking with the United States Marines. "Toughest guys I've ever seen," he says. "While our men can 'get along' on one dinner of K Ration a day, the Aussies eat a can of Bully Beef and think it's a good meal!"

Torbie's squadron was gradually disbanded this year. He himself few back from New Guinea on August 22. His leave lasts until Monday, October 23, when he will report to the Melville, Rhode Island base once again.

Harvard's informal team looked good last Saturday to the eyes of a former star. Torbie called the eleven one of good potentialities, but said it was lacking in finesse, a result of too little practice. He thinks that except for the shortage of time to practice, a Crimson formal Varsity would have been possible this Fall. As a matter of fact, he described Coach Henry Lamars eleven as "looking very much like a Harlow-coached team."

Out at sea Torbie thought more than anything else about the friends that he hadn't seen for months or years. The friendliness between officers and men out at sea, and when on short leaves, took the place of any old acquaintances for all on board, he says.

Torbie is looking forward to the day when he will be back in Cambridge for good to continue his law studies, but he predicts that it will be 1946 before that play comes