Word: luckner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...
...irrepressible Count Von Luckner offers further opportunity for German-American association in a projected cruise for university students which he himself will conduct, and in which there will be place for a number of Harvard men. In this expedition the quest for international amity will be ancillary to the desire to promote in young gentlemen an Elizabethan love of adventure...
Contemporary feats of aviation and exploration are dominating attention by accomplishment. Scientific and archeological expeditions, more obscure, are as permanent in daring and achievement. In an age that turns anew to the production of complete gentlemen, of physical as well as intellectual fortitude, Count Von Luckner's is a fortuitous invitation to the men that may profit from it most...
...number of Harvard students will have an opportunity of going to sea with Count Felix Von Luckner during the summer after next, according to the Count's present plans as outlined to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The present plans for the cruise will take approximately ten American university students along with five German men through the Panama Canal to the West Coast, for adventure, the group to enjoy enroute participation in gunning, fishing, and harpooning...
...shall take my new 140-foot schooner," said Von Luckner, "with about ten men from different universities, and five German boys, fine fellows, and go on a cruise for real adventure. You Americans don't know enough about life on the sea, you have no real sailormen; your sailors are all in unions, and they go to sea merely because they can get good pay. You should interest your young boys...