Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Used to the Costigan castigations, Chairman Marvin commented last week: "I part with him with a salute for his many fine qualities and wish him greater success and satisfaction in his new enterprises than he achieved as a member of the commission." Commissioner Brossard quoted sarcastically: "'Captain, they're all out of step...
...Captain of the Royal Oak, Kenneth Dewar...
Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...
...graduated from St.Mark's in 1925. There he was one of the outstanding players on the team for two seasons, and was its star captain his last year. His Freshman year here he was captain of the 1929 sextet...
This year Tudor was third high scorer of the University team. Captain J. P. Chase '28 and F. R. G. Giddens '29, center and star forward respectively of this year's team, chalked up the leading number of tallies. Tudor, with his goal scored in the first of the Yale series, succeeded in making a total of nine goals during the season...