Word: galleys
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...college men were good seamen it would be different. But only a small number stand on their own merits. I knew a Yale man who, on galley duty, used to throw the dirty dishes through the porthole, to get time to write to his girl. And another who sent the crew into hysteries when he tried to scrub deck with gloves...
...Florence that George Eliot found in Italy and fashioned for her novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...
...will be allowed in all parts of the ship during the voyage. They will be taught to handle the wheel, and trained in all the occupations about the deck and in the hold. The only jobs they will not try their hand at is cooking, but even in the galley, a university atmosphere will be maintained, as the three cooks who have been engaged have all served as chefs in prominent undergraduate clubs at Harvard and Princeton...
...Francis S. Kershaw '29 will speak at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, one Chinese Pottery. His talk will be held in the Ceramic Galley of the Chinese and Japanese Department. At 4 o'clock, in the gallery of the Evans Building at the Museum, Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman '86 will speak on "Renaissance Sculpture...
Yesterday afternoon furnished much humor. Several alleged that the punt, which seats ten men on a side and has a runway down its length, resembles nothing so much as an old Roman galley. What with a coach, a manager, and a moving picture photographer pacing between the oarsmen, all that would have been needed to complete the picture of a classic galley would have been to chain the men to their seats and supply the coach with a whip...