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...have traveled in the last dozen years. The World War is now definitely something of the past. If as yet we cannot discuss it with complete detachment, we can come quite close to doing so. The bitterness and hatred of those insane days have largely abated Witness Count Von Luckner's reception here in Worcester the other evening, a friendly reception not unmixed with admiration. Ten or eleven years ago we wouldn't give much for the count's chances of preserving his tranquillity of soul on the Mechanics Hall platform...
...Steamers, ach. steamers have no soul. It is only the sailing vessels that made great the profession of the sea," declared Count von Luckner, the "Sea-Devil" in an interview yesterday, "the steamers have brought in the trade union on the sea, and the union has destroyed the profession. When we were on the sea, we had to furl the sails without overtime...
Count von Luckner stretched and yawned, for it was only 9 o'clock in the morning after a late night's lecture at the University Club. The lecture, however, had been a success, he told me with pride...
Count von Luckner then told of his schooner "Mopelia" in which he intends to make two trips, one during the spring vacation, and the other this summer for college boys. This schooner, he said, is the only well outfitted one of its kind left. When asked about his last cruise, he told of meeting the policeman who arrested him in the Fiji islands, during the war, who had since become governor of Barbados...
...party is being limited exclusively to Harvard men. Count von Luckner is in great demand as a lecturer in this country and it is felt by the cruise managers that it was only because of his great enthusiasm over the idea of a Harvard cruise that he consented to make the-trip...