The new men might as well have saved themselves their worry.

Barely an upper class man in the hall was paying any heed whatever to these self-conscious plebes.
The meal, a mid-day dinner, was an excellent one.

Few of the new men, however, had any notion of what it consisted.
Mess hall was left with almost the same amount of formality.
In the short recreation period that followed the new men, painfully conscious that their caps were the only part of the uniform they wore, were hurried away by Midshipman Cranthorpe.
Now they were quickly assigned to the rooms that they would occupy during their first year at the Naval Academy.
The midshipmen are not roomed by classes.

Instead, each is assigned to a company, and there are three companies to a division.

Each division occupies a floor in Bancroft Hall.