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...Charles Dana Gibson, artist . . . D.F.A...
...days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied...
Dawes Data: The Ambassador & Mrs. Dawes had a son Rufus Fearing (deceased) ; they have a daughter Mrs. Carolyn Ericson, an adopted younger son Dana (he eloped from Williams College last month, was in Hawaii last week with his bride, who eloped from Mt. Holyoke College), an adopted younger daughter Virginia whom they call "Ginnie." Carefully reared, she does not smoke. Her presentation at Court was arranged as a "surprise," Mrs. Dawes keeping the secret for weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year...
Howard Abell 1L, A. S. Armstrong, Jr. '32, P. H. Bates '33, J. H. Beard '34, J. T. Blackwell '34, B. B. Buckingham '33, H. M. Daft '34, R. H. Dana '34, J. T. Dennison '34, David Ennis '32, E. H. Fiske '34, Elwood Gaskill 1G, J. H. Gaul '32, W. H. Goodson, Jr. GM. A. L. Gordon...
Each answer was read two or three times by the judges' "staff," then the best ones (about 500) were bound, sent to Editor Ray Long (Cosmopolitan), Chain-Publisher Roy Wilson Howard and Artist Charles Dana Gibson (Life) for final judgment. Only last week were the winners decided...