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Welles VanNess Moot '08, of Buffalo, N. Y., has loaned his auxiliary schooner yacht "Adventuress" to the University for use in practical instruction in seamanship and navigation for men taking naval training courses. The yacht was delivered at Fort Jefferson, L. I., and arrived at Marblehead on June 5 under the command of Tucker Daland '73, assisted by Dr. H. T. Stetson, of the Astronomical Laboratory, and eight members of the training courses...
...plot deals with the adventures of Tom Stewert, who for the sake of his friend, Dick Lockhart, plays the part of a long lost son. The developments are at all times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
Uutil very recently it has been though that Defoe was the father of the modern realistic novel. Dr., Ernest Bernbaum '02, in his work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms...
...Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake of the Court augmented the public exasperation; and, after the fall of the Bastile, the infuriated mob, breaking into the palace of Versailles, attempted...
Italian papers are speaking with surprise of "Miss Alice Blaine, daughter of ex-Secretary Blaine, travelling through Italy without a chaperone." As Miss Blaine is at home in Washington, some adventuress is probably assuming Miss Blaine's name...