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Class of 42. At Mahone Bay, 58 miles southwest of Halifax, Henry Gerald Stairs had just finished putting the first of his new class of schooners through her trial paces. The Acadia 42 (socalled because of her 42-ft. overall length), designed by Stairs and built wholly of native white oak, pine and spruce, worked up to eight knots in a brisk breeze. Said Stairs:"She's fast, staunch, sound-a darned good sea boat. I'd take her around the world tomorrow." Instead, he loaded her on a flatcar last week for delivery to a California buyer...
...dawning Army-Navy realization that the American people will act all right about the war if they are given the facts was signalized on the East Coast when, for the first time, reporters and photographers were permitted to cover the arrival of a hospital ship. The Acadia, bringing home 776 men wounded in Italy and North Africa, reminded home folks that thus far in the war U.S. fighting men have been killed, wounded or captured at a rate of one every eight minutes since Dec. 7, 1941 -and that soon that rate may be measured in seconds...
...appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation as a Prohibitionist...
Arriving at Colgate after twelve years as president of Acadia College, Dr. Cutten found an accumulated deficit of $700,000 and proceeded to make academic history by clearing a surplus for his college every year for 17 successive years. He doubled Colgate's faculty, plant and total assets (now $9,961,054), brought in able young teachers, hired a landscape architect to beautify the campus, made the most of the prestige won for his college by its great football teams. He also introduced in 1928 the famed Colgate Plan, since copied by many other colleges. Similar to the Chicago...
Frantic was the rush of U. S. summer trippers hoping to glimpse the Windsors in the Bahamas. The cruise ship Acadia cleared from Manhattan for Nassau with 40% more passengers than she ever carried before. To Bermuda went the President Roosevelt, with reporters and cameramen celebrating...