Word: crews
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...means "United States Ship" and is applied ONLY to ships of the Navy. The caption "SS" means "Steamship" and is used when referring to merchant vessels. Neither the Eastern Glade nor the West Calumb is a vessel of the United States Navy. The fact that the health of the crew sort of depended upon the Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted men ?as to the medical care the personnel of the Navy are given. Practically every ship of our Navy has one or more...
Died. Richard Cary ("Uncle Richard'') Morse, 85, famed pioneer Y. M. C. A. official; at his Brooklyn home; of general breakdown, following a severe cold. Nephew of Painter-Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse he attended Yale, rowed on the 'Varsity crew, graduated in 1862. Student for the ministry, he was persuaded to become religious editor (1867-69) of the New York Observer; wrote for it a report of a meeting of the Y. M. C. A (then a struggling fledgling) which won him an official position with the organization; became eventually (until 1915) general secretary...
Coach Brown, who took over the crew helm this fall, believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite lineups. In other words he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...himself out in "building through"; every step of the way and every foot of the trail is a challenge to his judgment. Then he must organize a camp to clear that trail when thus located; he must study up transportation, tentage, food lists, tools, equipment; he must organize a crew and their work. When completed, he must "sign...
...once tramped a long trail, then in good condition, with the best of companions, but was impressed with little about the trail except its length. Years later when the storms had again wreeked it, I twice worked through it with axe and cross cut and my trail crew. The first year we broke the cross-cut at the worst place and time, and two of us traveled twenty miles in storm to replace it. Next year in a grueling three days five of us took out over four hundred cross-logs. I really know that trail now and love...