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...have sailed up the oily river to Manhattan's topless towers ever received such a welcome as was accorded last week to the Irishman whose toast is drunk daily in 10,000,000 cups of tea. There were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here. And Captain Herbert Hartley, master of the Leviathan, ordered three...
...LEVIATHAN-William Bolitho-Harp-ers ($2.00). The author has chosen the word Leviathan, meaning something formidably large, as title of a number of essays interpreting "our age"-or what the Germans call Zeitgeist. Mr. Bolitho says the saxophone is our Zeitgeist. He describes the curious cruelty of the English in Mme. Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors-the place where the effigies of famed murders are exhibited before the crime, in the act of the crime, after the crime, at the point of execution, etc. He tells of the great past, moving forward in the same 'dignified...
...cold weather yesterday did not stop Coach Haines' from giving his Freshmen crew candidates their first work-out on the good ship "Leviathan". With the 20 oars swinging in anything but perfect unison, the huge barge swept up and down the Charles with each new set of candidates. This total lack of symmetry is explained by the fact that none of the oarsmen ever rowed in a shell, and the resemblance they bore to the sweep-swinger slaves in the "Sea-Hawk" will probably disappear after a few weeks more under Coach Haines. The "Leviathan" has proved a successful invention...
Hale and agile, tanned of face and bright of eye after an invigorating sea voyage following two months abroad, William G. McAdoo last Monday marched down the gangway of the S.S. Leviathan, set foot on Manhattan Island...
...will see the experienced men in shells, under the direction of A. J. Hobson Jr. '24 and J. L. Hoover '24, and they will continue on the river until ice forms. The inexperienced candidates will have two weeks of machine work, after which they will be transferred to the "Leviathan", the recently-built barge which seats 20 men. As soon as they become proficient in the handling of sweeps they will be assingned places in shells. Coach Haines will personally direct the machine work of the green...