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...begins at 4 in the morning, when the mate, who tells the story, bangs on the weather-beaten shacks of a Florida port town and rounds up the men; sometimes it ends before dusk, sometimes later. Where the ship hunts for pogy is strictly the business of Captain Crother. a white man who rarely cracks a smile because the Moona Waa Togue is his last stop on a downhill career. How much pogy is caught is everybody's business, for the men sharecrop the catch, getting a dime apiece for every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sharecroppers of the Sea | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

When a boil of Gulf Stream finally points to pogy, and the men in the small boats close their quarter-mile ring of net to draw it in, the menhaden suddenly "thunder" (i.e., make a quivering mass surge) and split the net. Captain Crother follows another school too close to shore, promptly loses a second net when its base is sucked fast into the sandy ocean floor. Still another catch has to be let go when baby sharks begin to shred a third net. In final irony, the Moona Waa Togue is almost within hail of home port with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sharecroppers of the Sea | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...preventative body of Cambridge men of all political parties are acting as sponsored or the meeting. Among these men of the following: Dr. Samuel M. Crother, S. T. D., '99; Professor Albert B. Harrison '80, Richard H. Dana '01, Dean Chester N. Greenough '98, Professor Edward V. Huntington '95, Professor George G. Wilson, and Professor E. C. Moore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: URGE IMMEDIATE RATIFICATION OF TREATY IN OPEN MASS MEETING IN SANDERS TONIGHT AT 8 | 11/29/1919 | See Source »

...total College enrollment, must include a consideration of several other facts. In the first place, the number of men who are away from Cambridge over Sunday cannot be less than 25 per cent. of the total. Moreover, most Episcopalians and all Roman Catholics attend their own churches. Also, Dr. Crother's church has an average student attendance of 40. Finally, a considerable number of men attend Boston churches on Sunday mornings. Remembering these facts, the 12 per cent. attendance seems a creditable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STATUS OF THE CHAPEL. | 3/20/1911 | See Source »

...Dana '09 vs. F. W. Hall '10, R. H. Eggleston '09 vs. R. H. Smith '10, E. M. B. Roche '09 vs. P. J. Large '10. The 1911 team will consist of W. Fraser-Campbell '11, A. Sweetser '11, H. Nickerson '11, F. F. A. Pearson '11, D. H. Crother '11, and E. M. Ach '11 or C. L. Barnwell '11. These men will be allotted their opponents at the field. The Freshman team will be made up of C. S. Cutting '12, L. I. Grinnell '12, F. Gray '12, M. Hallowell '12, C. N. Browne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCLASS TENNIS TOURNEY | 11/4/1908 | See Source »

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