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Until the closing of the school at the laboratory, it is planned to give instruction for four hours a day in "taking the sun" by means of the sextant and an artificial horizon. After this training the students will be placed aboard boats, probably to be furnished by the United Fruit Company, for actual service in determining latitude and longitude...
...Engineering: this class will include only those who apply especially for such a course. The course will cover generally: (1) the organization and administration of the engineer's force aboard ship; (2) general description marine main engines, their operation and maintenance; (3) boilers and fireroom fittings--operation, care and preservation, etc., including main and auxiliary feed systems; (4) auxiliaries--disposition operation and upkeep; (5) water-tight subdivisions, drainage system, etc.; (6) evaporators and distilling plant; (7) electric lighting and power plant...
...many books, published since his coming to the United States to enter the Department of Psychology in Harvard University. Professor Muensterberg declared that he went aboard the steamer that brought him here possessing of the English language only an almost useless smattering acquired in school. Before the voyage across was ended he had acquired, by diligent and vigorous study, the power to speak, understand and write it with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English...
...will start on August 15 and on that day all those enrolled will get aboard their assigned boats. Five days are allowed recruits from this date to get accustomed to the nature of their duties mainly those of ordinary sailors...
...step--All Aboard for Dixie Land...