 Hubbard , however , applied instead to undertake a three @-@ month training course in military administration at the School of Military Government , a faculty that had been established on the campus of Princeton University ( but was not part of the University itself , although Hubbard later asserted that he had been a Princeton student ) . His commanding officer approved the detachment and gave Hubbard a generally good fitness report , rating him to be " of excellent personal and military character " though he " is very temperamental and often has his feelings hurt . " On September 27 , a curious incident occurred aboard the USS Algol ; the ship 's deck log records that Hubbard reported that he had discovered " an attempt at sabotage " consisting of a Coke bottle filled with gasoline with a cloth wick inserted , concealed among the ship 's cargo . A few hours later Hubbard was ordered to depart the ship and proceed to Princeton . 
