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Intense was the mortification of Admiral Bristol when he found that aboard his ship, the small gunboat Mindanao, there was no gun equipped to return the salute with appropriate booms and detonations. Rather than set a machine gun to pip-pip-pipping, the flustered Admiral chose not to return the salute at all, but radioed his apologies to shore...
...Pip" has been renamed the "Pep", and the "Brown Pup" has been changed to the "Black Pup". The names of the "White Pup" and the "Class of 1892" are unchanged. These 4 boats have been painted a brilliant crimson. The "Black Pup" has a 2 inch black stripe on each side and across the stern to distinguish it from the "White Pup," which has a similar stripe of white...
Because of a defective bolt in the propellor, the new boat, which has been christened the "Pip", has been drawn up on the float during the past few days, but it will probably be put in the water today...
...library of the Union has recently received a number of new books which make a valuable addition to that collection. Among those recently published are: "Shelley in England," Roger Ingpen; "Short Rations," Madeleine Z. Doty; "Pip," by Ian Hay; "America's Relations to the Great War," J. W. Burgess; the collected poems of James Elroy Flecker; "The Spirit of American Literature," J. A. Macy; "The Advance of the English Novel," W. L. Phelps; "Dante," C. H. Grandgent '83; "Lost Endeavor," by John Masefield; "A Popular Life of Martin Luther," Elsie Singmaster; "Health and Disease," R. I. Lee '02; "Abraham Lincoln...