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...language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though the ultimate goal be Honors...
From Senegal they pointed the bright tip of the Nungesser-Coli at the heart of the ocean, determined to pierce it from St. Louis, Bengal, to Port Natal, Brazil. Deftly they parried sly thrusts of gusty wind. Persistently they pointed their rapier at the mark. After an 18-hour battle, the Atlantic had been run through. The bright tip of the Nnngesser-Coli emerged over the night-shrouded field at Natal. France had had satisfaction...
...usually mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom coming and the year of Jubilee...
Last week his second hop was to be across the South Atlantic, from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, to Natal, Brazil (1,715 miles), not far out, he turned back landed on the island of Bissagos...
...South Atlantic moved steadily beneath him . . . 500 miles . . . 1000 miles . . . more water and more water . . . an equatorial downpour . . . then an island. Commander Francesco de Pinedo consulted his fuel gauges. Yes, there might be enough left. The maps said only 270 miles from this island, Fernando Noronha, to Port Natal on the easternmost shoulder of South America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya in the Cape Verde Islands...