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...from Charleston Harbor this week chugged the sleek 72-ft. auxiliary schooner Indra, bound down the Atlantic coast to the Caribbean. Each of the crew of six boys who manned the Indra had paid $1,500 for the privilege of rigging her sails, holystoning her decks, polishing her brass every morning until June. When they return they will be examined, not as Able Seamen but by the College Entrance Examination Board...
...they would like to work aboard for a full week. They did, liked it so well that they asked their parents for enough money to sail down the Maine coast. When all returned a month later to pass their College Boards with flying colors Headmaster Pond bought the Indra, soon set his school afloat for good...
This year the Indra will cruise comfortably about the West Indies, drop anchor off Yucatan and Venezuela for shore trips. Last year Headmaster Pond and pupils landed in Haiti, were promptly invited to a Governor's Ball. On board Mrs. Pond watches over the health of her charges, supervises the cook, only professional member of the crew. The Indra stays at anchor every morning until the pupils have finished their reading and recitations. Seaman Pond does not stand in awe of College Boards. Says he: "Any boy this side of imbecility can be prepared to enter college...
...Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...
...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...