Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University quintet, composed of Captain J. L. Pool '28, S. M. Dupertuis '28, Seabury Oliver '28, R. H. Whitbeck '29, and A. G. Thatcher '29, will battle with the Union Boat Club team on the latter's courts. The University C team will take on the University Club of Boston. The former includes the following men: Erlund Field '28, H. G. Meyer '30, J. C. Rueter '28, R. K. Tilt '29, and J. L. Ware...
...Engaged. Captain Hubert Ward Beyette, one of the U. S. army aides at the White House; to Miss Jessica Idanthea Moffat of Washington...
...Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally but arguments were found to convince him, and in December of 1831 The Beagle put to sea from Barn-pool, carrying Darwin...
...would have been with Captain Frederick A. Giles, if he could have got his freighter. But there was none in sight and he must needs fly all the way to the California coast whence he started. At least so say the weather experts, who claim that the sun was shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill...
...Haven, Conn., November 22--M.H. Eddy '29, of Middiebury, Vermont, was elected captain of the 1928 Yale football team here tonight. Eddy, who plays right tackle on the eleven, was a star on his Freshman football team, but was in eligible last year on account of scholarship...